We would like to express our thanks to Professor Osamu Tadauchi, Associate Professor
Satoshi Kamitani, Associate Professor Layne Westover for reviewing the manuscript.
We are also indebted to Mr. Narong Mahannop, the superintendent of Khao Yai National
Park, for supporting and provisioning our fi eldwork. Permission for sampling
in this project was granted by the National Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation
Department, Th ailand (No. 0907/14255). T. Kanao and M. Maruyama thank Dr.
Yoko Takemastu for identifi cation of the termite species. M. Maruyama thanks Alfred
F. Newton and Margaret K. Th ayer for allowing use of the Microptics system at the
Field Museum of Natural History, and Y. Katayama and T. Komatsu for their assistance
in the fi rst author’s fi eld work and for taking excellent pictures (Figs 5A–5D). Th is
study was partially supported by a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad to
M. Maruyama. Th is is a Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of
Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Ser. 6, No. 86).