Ulmeriella shizukuishiensis Fujiyama 1983 (termite)

Insecta - Blattodea

Full reference: I. Fujiyama. 1983. Neogene termites from northeastern districts of Japan, with references to the occurrence of fossil insects in the districts. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 16:83-97

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

See also Fujiyama 1983 and Nel and Paicheler 1993

Sister taxa: Ulmeriella aquisextana, Ulmeriella bauckhorni, Ulmeriella cockerelli, Ulmeriella latahensis, Ulmeriella martynovi, Ulmeriella pliocenica, Ulmeriella rubiensis, Ulmeriella strausi, Ulmeriella uemurai, Ulmeriella willershausensis

Type specimen: NSMT PA12212, a hindwing. Its type locality is Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, which is in a Miocene lacustrine siliciclastic in the Masuzawa Formation of Japan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture

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