†Parotermes Scudder 1883 (termite)
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Insecta - Blattodea - Archotermopsidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1883. The fossil white ants of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:133-145
Parent taxon: Archotermopsidae according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Burnham 1978, Carpenter 1992, Emerson 1933, Fontes and Vulcano 1998, Froggatt 1897, Nel and Paicheler 1993 and Snyder 1949
Sister taxa: Archotermopsinae, Archotermopsis, Gyatermes, Zootermopsis
Subtaxa: Parotermes insignis
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection) (Eocene of Colorado)
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