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Mastotermes
Taxonomy
Mastotermes was named by Froggatt (1897). It is extant. It is the type genus of Mastotermitinae, Mastotermitinae.
It was assigned to Calotermitinae by Froggatt (1897); to Mastotermitidae by Pongrácz (1928), Snyder (1949), Emerson (1965), Jarzembowski (1980), Carpenter (1992), Nel and Paicheler (1993), Fontes and Vulcano (1998), Wappler (2003), Nel and Bourguet (2006), Krishna et al. (2013), Engel et al. (2016), Bezerra et al. (2020); and to Mastotermitinae by Jouault (2022), Jiang et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Calotermitinae by Froggatt (1897); to Mastotermitidae by Pongrácz (1928), Snyder (1949), Emerson (1965), Jarzembowski (1980), Carpenter (1992), Nel and Paicheler (1993), Fontes and Vulcano (1998), Wappler (2003), Nel and Bourguet (2006), Krishna et al. (2013), Engel et al. (2016), Bezerra et al. (2020); and to Mastotermitinae by Jouault (2022), Jiang et al. (2024).
Species
M. aethiopicus, M. anglicus (syn. M. batheri), M. bournemouthensis, M. brasiliensis, M. croaticus (syn. Pliotermes hungaricus), M. electrodominicus, M. electromexicus, M. gallica, M. haidingeri (syn. M. vetustus), M. heerii, M. krishnorum, M. minor, M. minutus, M. monostichus, M. myanmarensis, M. nepropadyom, M. picardi, M. reticulatus, M. sarthensis
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1897 | Mastotermes Froggatt p. 517 |
| 1917 | Pliotermes Pongrácz p. 28 |
| 1928 | Mastotermes Pongrácz p. 102 |
| 1928 | Pliotermes Pongrácz p. 107 |
| 1949 | Mastotermes Snyder p. 353 |
| 1949 | Pliotermes Snyder p. 354 |
| 1965 | Mastotermes Emerson p. 36 |
| 1980 | Mastotermes Jarzembowski p. 244 |
| 1992 | Mastotermes Carpenter p. 139 |
| 1993 | Mastotermes Nel and Paicheler p. 106 |
| 1998 | Mastotermes Fontes and Vulcano p. 280 |
| 2003 | Mastotermes Wappler |
| 2006 | Mastotermes Nel and Bourguet p. 102 |
| 2013 | Mastotermes Krishna et al. p. 228 |
| 2016 | Mastotermes Engel et al. p. 1040 |
| 2020 | Mastotermes Bezerra et al. p. 1884 |
| 2022 | Mastotermes Jouault p. 620 |
| 2024 | Mastotermes Jiang et al. p. 121 |
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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.
G. Mastotermes Froggatt 1897
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†Mastotermes aethiopicus Engel et al. 2016
†Mastotermes anglicus von Rosen 1913
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Invalid names: Mastotermes batheri von Rosen 1913 [synonym]
†Mastotermes bournemouthensis von Rosen 1913
†Mastotermes brasiliensis Bezerra et al. 2020
†Mastotermes croaticus von Rosen 1913
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Invalid names: Pliotermes hungaricus Pongrácz 1917 [synonym]
†Mastotermes electrodominicus Krishna and Grimaldi 1991
†Mastotermes electromexicus Krishna and Emerson 1983
†Mastotermes gallica Nel 1986
†Mastotermes heerii Goeppert 1855
†Mastotermes krishnorum Wappler and Engel 2006
†Mastotermes minor Pongrácz 1928
†Mastotermes minutus Nel and Bourguet 2006
†Mastotermes monostichus Zhao et al. 2019
†Mastotermes myanmarensis Jouault 2022
†Mastotermes nepropadyom Vršanský and Aristov 2014
†Mastotermes picardi Nel and Paicheler 1993
†Mastotermes reticulatus Jiang et al. 2024
†Mastotermes sarthensis Schlüter 1989
Invalid names: Pliotermes Pongrácz 1917 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Barremian to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 125.77000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (30 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Barremian | Russian Federation (Chita) | M. nepropadyom (105968) | |
| Early/Lower Albian | Myanmar (Sagaing) | M. myanmarensis (215115) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Myanmar | M. monostichus, M. reticulatus (165561) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | France | Mastotermitidae indet. (123019) | |
| Ypresian | France (Oise) | M. minutus (123850) | |
| Lutetian | United Kingdom (England) | M. bournemouthensis (127644) | |
| MP 13 | Germany (Eifel) | M. krishnorum (135640) | |
| Priabonian | United Kingdom (England) | M. anglicus, M. batheri (21976) | |
| Priabonian | Brazil (Minas Gerais) | M. brasiliensis (138890) | |
| Chattian | France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) | M. sp., M. gallica (122501) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | France (Bouches-du-Rhone) | M. sp., M. picardi (113989) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico | M. sp. (146607) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Ethiopia | M. aethiopicus (169321) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Mexico (Chiapas) | M. electromexicus (124467 138881 138882 140209 140210 140212 140218 140478) M. sp. (151418 238005) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | M. electrodominicus (122982 124282) | |
| Sarmatian | Croatia | M. croaticus (117246) M. vetustus, M. minor (113698) Pliotermes hungaricus (156758) Termes haidingeri (117247) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Poland | Termopsis heerii (138936) |