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Prostylotermes kamboja

Insecta - Blattodea - Stylotermitidae

Taxonomy
Prostylotermes kamboja was named by Engel and Grimaldi (2011). Its type specimen is AMNH Tad-321C, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India. It is the type species of Prostylotermes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2011Prostylotermes kamboja Engel and Grimaldi p. 110 figs. 2, 4
2013Prostylotermes kamboja Krishna et al. p. 633

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
—Euisoptera
—Artisoptera
—Icoisoptera
—Neoisoptera
familyStylotermitidae(Holmgren and Holmgren 1917)
genusProstylotermes
specieskamboja

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.

†Prostylotermes kamboja Engel and Grimaldi 2011
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 48.07000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07India (Gujarat) Prostylotermes kamboja (type locality: 124463)