Proelectrotermes swinhoei Cockerell 1916 (termite)

Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae

Alternative combinations: Kalotermes swinhoei, Termopsis swinhoei

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1916. Insects in Burmese amber. The American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 42:135-138

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

See also Cockerell 1916, Emerson 1969, Engel et al. 2007, Nel and Paicheler 1993, Ross and York 2000 and Williams 1968

Sister taxa: Proelectrotermes berendtii, Proelectrotermes fodinae, Proelectrotermes holmgreni, Proelectrotermes roseni

Type specimen: BMNH In.19096, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH)

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