Insecta - Blattodea - Heterotermitidae
Full reference: A. E. Emerson. 1971. Tertiary Fossil Species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), Phylogeny of Genera, and Reciprocal Phylogeny of Associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 146:243-304
Belongs to Coptotermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Emerson 1971 and Nel and Paicheler 1993
Sister taxa: Coptotermes hirsutus, Coptotermes paleodominicanus, Coptotermes priscus
Type specimen: UCMP 12679B, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-5103, Las Cruces landslide, Simojovel region, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Mexico (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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