Around 6mm long. The head is pale orange and oval-shaped. Mandibles are curved and sharply pointed, with a distinct tooth on the inner margin of the left mandible.
Build large underground nests. Build soil covers and keep fungus combs in their nests like M. barneyi.
Citation: Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygene Department […]
With two classes of soldiers, the major soldiers (7.5-8mm long) and minor soldiers (5-6.5mm long). Major soldiers are with brownish red heads while those of minor soldiers are paler. Mandibles are black, long and saber-like
Build underground nests. May also build large earth mounds to house their nests. Soil particles and saliva are used […]
Around 7mm in length. The head is rectangular and pale yellow. The body is white in colour. Mandibles are long, slender and slightly asymmetrical.
Feed on humus in soil. Little is known about this species and other habits are thought to be similar to those of C. fuscotibialis.
Citation: Hong Kong Food and […]
The head is rectangular and yellow to light brown in colour. Mandibles are characteristically asymmetrical.
Feed on humus in soil. Usually found inhabiting parts of nests built by other larger termite species.
Citation: Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygene Department – Pest Control Newsletter, Termites
Around 4.5mm long. The rectangular head is yellow in colour. Mandibles are relatively short and stout with dark tips.
Live in old tree stumps and buried timber. May also infest moist structural timber in buildings.
Citation: Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygene Department – Pest Control Newsletter, Termites
Around 5mm long. The head is pear-shaped and pale orange in colour. Mandibles are large, pointed and dark.
Inhabit dead tree branches and moist structural timber in domestic environment. May damage a wide range of items of wood origin. The most commonly encountered pest species in Hong Kong.
Citation: Hong Kong Food and […]
Around 5 mm long. The head is large, cylindrical and dark. The body is creamy white. Mandibles are small as compared with those of other species.
Live in a variety of structural timber away from ground in domestic environment. Found in dead tree branches occasionally.
Citation: Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygene Department […]
Fruiting bodies up to 9.0 cm in height, pleurotoid; pilei up to 10.5 cm in diameter, depressed, surface grayish brown bearing brownish to purplish squamules, dry, fleshy, flesh up to 0.3 cm thick, white, lamellae yellowish white, decurrent, extending down on to the stipe, subdistant (up to 0.4 cm apart from each other), unequal, […]
Fruiting bodies (pilei) annual to perennial, 3-5 cm × 4-8 cm and 0.2 cm thick, solitary or in clusters, pileate, flabelliform to semi-circular bracket, broadly or narrowly attached to the substrate or almost stipitate, thin, flexible and coriaceous when dry, upper surface concentrically zoned, ochraceous to dark brown; pore surface […]
Fruiting bodies annual, 4-16 cm wide, resupinate or pileate, loosely attached, laterally and sometimes by a very short stalk, elastic, gelatinous, hymenium smooth, or wrinkled, pale brown to dark brown to blackish brown with a whitish boom, sterile surface dark yellowish brown to dark brown with greyish brown bands, hairy, silky; hairs up to […]
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