Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae

Full reference: A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler. 1993. Les Isoptera fossiles. État actuel des connaissances, implications paléoécologiques et paléoclimatologiques (Insecta, Dictyoptera). Cahiers de Paléontologie 1993:102-179

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

See also Nel and Paicheler 1993

Sister taxa: Mastotermes aethiopicus, Mastotermes anglicus, Mastotermes bournemouthensis, Mastotermes brasiliensis, Mastotermes croaticus, Mastotermes electrodominicus, Mastotermes electromexicus, Mastotermes gallica, Mastotermes haidingeri, Mastotermes heerii, Mastotermes krishnorum, Mastotermes minor, Mastotermes minutus, Mastotermes monostichus, Mastotermes myanmarensis, Mastotermes nepropadyom, Mastotermes reticulatus, Mastotermes sarthensis

Type specimen: MNHN IPM-R.54196, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Camoins-les-Bains (MNHN coll), which is in an Oligocene lacustrine marl in France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Camoins-les-Bains (MNHN coll)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.