Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae
Alternative combination: Termopsis piacentinii
Full reference: L. Piton and N. Théobald. 1937. Les lignites et schistes bitumineux de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme). II: Les insectes fossiles de Menat. Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne 3(2):76-88
Belongs to Kalotermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Nel and Paicheler 1993, Piton 1940, Piton and Théobald 1937 and Snyder 1949
Sister taxa: Calotermes (Calotermes), Calotermes bosniaskii, Kalotermes disruptus, Kalotermes fossus, Kalotermes nigellus, Kalotermes nigritus, Kalotermes nisus, Kalotermes oeningensis, Kalotermes rhenanus
Type specimen: MNHN.F.R07027, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Piacentini collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (Piacentini collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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