Mastotermes sarthensis Schlüter 1989 (termite)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae

Full reference: T. Schlüter. 1989. Neue Daten über harzkonservierte Arthropoden aus dem Cenomanium NW-Frankreiche. Documenta Naturae 56:59-70

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

See also Nel and Paicheler 1993 and Schlüter 1989

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 picardi, Mastotermes reticulatus

Type specimen: PIFU ls Ce Bez 2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bezonnais (Ecommoy) amber, which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bezonnais (Ecommoy) amber

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