Mastotermes bournemouthensis von Rosen 1913 (termite)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae

Full reference: K. von Rosen. 1913. Die Fossilen Termiten: Eine kurze Zusammenfassung der bis jetzt bekannten Funde. Transactions of the 2nd International Congress of Entomology 2:318-335

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

See also Emerson 1965, Nel and Paicheler 1993, Snyder 1949 and von Rosen 1913

Sister taxa: Mastotermes aethiopicus, Mastotermes anglicus, Mastotermes brasiliensis, Mastotermes croaticus, Mastotermes electrodominicus, Mastotermes electromexicus, Mastotermes gallica, Mastotermes haidingeri, Mastotermes heerii, Mastotermes krishnorum, Mastotermes minor, Mastotermes minutus, Mastotermes monostichus, Mastotermes myanmarensis, Mastotermes nepropadyom, Mastotermes picardi, Mastotermes reticulatus, Mastotermes sarthensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH), which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH)

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