Insecta - Blattodea - Termitidae
Full reference: K. Krishna. 1996. New fossil species of termites of the Subfamily Nasutitermitinae from Dominican and Mexican amber (Isoptera, Termitidae). American Museum Novitates 3176:1-13
Belongs to Nasutitermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Krishna 1996
Sister taxa: Nasutitermes amplioculatus, Nasutitermes crinitus, Nasutitermes electrinus, Nasutitermes incisus, Nasutitermes magnocellus, Nasutitermes medioculatus, Nasutitermes rotundicephalus, Nasutitermes seminudus
Type specimen: AMNH DR-14-586, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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