Mastotermes minutus Nel and Bourguet 2006 (termite)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae

Full reference: A. Nel and E. Bourguet. 2006. Termite of the early Eocene amber of France (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae, Kalotermitidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2006:101-115

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

See also Nel and Bourguet 2006

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

Type specimen: MNHN PA 2405, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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