Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
Full reference: K. Krishna and A. E. Emerson. 1983. A new fossil species of termite from Mexican Amber, Mastotermes electromexicus (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae). American Museum Novitates 2767:1-8
Belongs to Mastotermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Fontes and Vulcano 1998, Krishna and Emerson 1983 and Nel and Paicheler 1993
Sister taxa: Mastotermes aethiopicus, Mastotermes anglicus, Mastotermes bournemouthensis, Mastotermes brasiliensis, Mastotermes croaticus, Mastotermes electrodominicus, Mastotermes gallica, Mastotermes haidingeri, Mastotermes heerii, Mastotermes krishnorum, Mastotermes minor, Mastotermes minutus, Mastotermes monostichus, Mastotermes myanmarensis, Mastotermes nepropadyom, Mastotermes picardi, Mastotermes reticulatus, Mastotermes sarthensis
Type specimen: UCMP B-5341-17, a cephalon/head (fragment of head with left mandible). Its type locality is UCMP B-5341, San Pedro, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Mexico (8 collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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