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Proelectrotermes swinhoei

Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae

Taxonomy
Termopsis swinhoei was named by Cockerell (1916). Its type specimen is BMNH In.19096, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Kalotermes swinhoei by Williams (1968), Emerson (1969), Nel and Paicheler (1993), Ross and York (2000); it was recombined as Proelectrotermes swinhoei by Engel et al. (2007), Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Termopsis swinhoei Cockerell p. 138 fig. 4
1968Kalotermes swinhoei Williams p. 547 figs. 1-3
1969Kalotermes swinhoei Emerson p. 34
1993Kalotermes swinhoei Nel and Paicheler p. 120
2000Kalotermes swinhoei Ross and York p. 11 fig. 3
2007Proelectrotermes swinhoei Engel et al. p. 24
2013Proelectrotermes swinhoei Krishna et al. p. 607

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
—Euisoptera
—Artisoptera
—Icoisoptera
familyKalotermitidae()
genusProelectrotermes()
speciesswinhoei()

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.

†Proelectrotermes swinhoei Cockerell 1916
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Myanmar Termopsis swinhoei (type locality: 123020)