Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
Full reference: Z. P. Zhao, P. Eggleton, and D. Ren. 2019. Taxonomic names, in The oldest known mastotermitids (Blattodea: Termitoidae) and phylogeny of basal termites. Systematic Entomology 44:612-623
Belongs to Mastotermes according to Z. P. Zhao et al. 2019
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 myanmarensis, Mastotermes nepropadyom, Mastotermes picardi, Mastotermes reticulatus, Mastotermes sarthensis
Type specimen: CNU-TER-BU2017004, a wing. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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