Neotermes grassei Piton 1940 (termite)

Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Neotermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013

See also Emerson 1969, Nel and Paicheler 1993, Piton 1940 and Snyder 1949

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN IPM-R.54380, a wing. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

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