†Calcaritermes vetus Emerson 1969 (termite)
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.
Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae
Full reference: A. E. Emerson. 1969. A revision of the Tertiary fossil species of the Kalotermitidae (Isoptera). American Museum Novitates 2359:1-57
Belongs to Calcaritermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Emerson 1969, Fontes and Vulcano 1998 and Nel and Paicheler 1993
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UCMP 2072, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-7051, Vega de la Campana, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Mexico (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.