†Melqartitermes myrrheus Engel et al. 2007 (termite)
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Insecta - Blattodea - Melqartitermitidae
Full reference: M. S. Engel, D. A. Grimaldi, and K. Krishna. 2007. Primitive termites from the Early Cretaceous of Asia (Isoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 371:1-32
Belongs to Melqartitermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Engel et al. 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH L-Iso1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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