ItalianTermiteMan
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Sharing with you a nice pic by Adedotun Ajibade (https://www.inaturalist.org/people/dotun55 / Attribution-NonCommercial CC licence) of a rather alien-looking mound build by an unidentified species of Cubitermes, a nice genus of soil-feeding termites found only in sub-Saharian Africa... what a peculiar home!
And for the sake of (a bit more) completeness, here's a pic by Dr. Jan Sobotnik of more unidentified Cubitermes, this time the actual animals. Note the plump workers, the wholly white larvae, the soldiers equipped with enlarged armored heads and sharp sickle-shaped mandibles and the queen, whose abdomen is massively swelled due to the multiplication of her ovaries (physogastry):
And for the sake of (a bit more) completeness, here's a pic by Dr. Jan Sobotnik of more unidentified Cubitermes, this time the actual animals. Note the plump workers, the wholly white larvae, the soldiers equipped with enlarged armored heads and sharp sickle-shaped mandibles and the queen, whose abdomen is massively swelled due to the multiplication of her ovaries (physogastry):
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