primary reproductive

primary reproductive
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Isoptera, the queen or male termite derived from winged adults, that establish a colony; see adultoid reproductive, nymphoid reproductive, ergatoid reproductive.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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