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Tanytermes

Insecta - Blattodea - Tanytermitidae

Taxonomy
Tanytermes was named by Engel et al. (2007). Its type is Tanytermes anawrahtai. It is the type genus of Tanytermitidae.

It was assigned to Isoptera by Engel et al. (2007); to Euisoptera by Krishna et al. (2013); and to Tanytermitidae by Engel (2021).

Species
T. anawrahtai (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Tanytermes Engel et al. p. 20
2013Tanytermes Krishna et al. p. 2406
2021Tanytermes Engel p. 383

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
Artisoptera
familyTanytermitidae
genusTanytermes

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Tanytermes Engel et al. 2007
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Tanytermes anawrahtai Engel et al. 2007
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar T. anawrahtai (111688)