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Macrotermes

Insecta - Blattodea - Termitidae

Taxonomy
Macrotermes was named by Holmgren (1910). It is extant. It is the type genus of Macrotermitinae.

It was assigned to Termitinae by Burnham (1978); to Termitidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Macrotermitinae by Snyder (1949), Nel and Paicheler (1993) and Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Macrotermes Holmgren
1949Macrotermes Snyder p. 368
1978Macrotermes Burnham
1992Macrotermes Carpenter p. 142
1993Macrotermes Nel and Paicheler p. 164
2013Macrotermes Krishna et al. p. 1019

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
Artisoptera
Icoisoptera
Neoisoptera
familyTermitidae()
subfamilyMacrotermitinaeKemner 1934
genusMacrotermesHolmgren 1910

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. Macrotermes Holmgren 1910
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Macrotermes pristinus Charpentier 1843
Macrotermes scheuthlei Armbruster 1941
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the MN 5 to the top of the Turolian or 15.97000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MN 515.97 - 13.65Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Termes scheuthlei (127614 155659)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Termes pristinus (113693 117246 156758)
Turolian8.7 - 5.333France (Ardèche) M. scheuthlei (156164)