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Stylotermitidae

Insecta - Blattodea - Stylotermitidae

Taxonomy
Stylotermitinae was named by Holmgren and Holmgren (1917). It is extant.

It was reranked as the family Stylotermitidae by Engel et al. (2009), Engel (2011) and Krishna et al. (2013).

It was assigned to Rhinotermitidae by Snyder (1949), Nel and Paicheler (1993) and Fontes and Vulcano (1998); and to Neoisoptera by Engel et al. (2009), Engel (2011) and Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Stylotermitinae Holmgren and Holmgren
1949Stylotermitinae Snyder p. 366
1993Stylotermitinae Nel and Paicheler p. 161
1998Stylotermitinae Fontes and Vulcano p. 283
2009Stylotermitidae Engel et al. p. 12
2011Stylotermitidae Engel
2013Stylotermitidae Krishna et al. p. 629

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
Artisoptera
Icoisoptera
Neoisoptera
familyStylotermitidae(Holmgren and Holmgren 1917)
familyStylotermitidae(Holmgren and Holmgren 1917)

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.

Fm. Stylotermitidae Holmgren and Holmgren 1917
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G. †Parastylotermes Snyder and Emerson 1949
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Parastylotermes calico Pierce 1958
Parastylotermes frazieri Snyder 1955
Parastylotermes krishnai Engel and Grimaldi 2011
Parastylotermes nathani Perkovsky 2020
Parastylotermes robustus von Rosen 1913
G. †Prostylotermes Engel and Grimaldi 2011
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Prostylotermes kamboja Engel and Grimaldi 2011
G. Stylotermes Holmgren and Holmgren 1917
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Langhian or 56.00000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8India (Gujarat) Parastylotermes krishnai, Prostylotermes kamboja (124463)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine Parastylotermes nathani (113621 122997 196704)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Leucotermes robustus (140221)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97USA (California) Parastylotermes frazieri (152010)
Hemingfordian20.43 - 15.97USA (California) Parastylotermes calico (144523) Parastylotermes sp. (106431)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82USA (Washington) Stylotermes washingtonensis (140652)