Termopsis ukapirmasi Engel et al. 2007 (damp wood termite)

Insecta - Blattodea - Termopsidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel, D. A. Grimaldi, and K. Krishna. 2007. A synopsis of Baltic amber termites (Isoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 372:1-20

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

See also Engel et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Termopsis bremii, Termopsis gracilipennis, Termopsis mallaszi, Termopsis transsylvanica

Type specimen: AMNH B-JH-Iso4, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (AMNH collection)

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