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Calcaritermes vetus

Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae

Taxonomy
Calcaritermes vetus was named by Emerson (1969). Its type specimen is UCMP 2072, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-7051, Vega de la Campana, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico. It is the type species of Calcaritermes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Calcaritermes vetus Emerson p. 39 fig. 10
1993Calcaritermes vetus Nel and Paicheler p. 122
1998Calcaritermes vetus Fontes and Vulcano p. 279
2013Calcaritermes vetus Krishna et al. p. 348

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Solumblattodea
superfamilyBlattoidea
—Kittrickea
—Xylophagodea
—Isoptera()
—Euisoptera
—Artisoptera
—Icoisoptera
familyKalotermitidae()
genusCalcaritermesSnyder 1925
speciesvetus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Calcaritermes vetus Emerson 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available