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Reticulitermes hartungi

Insecta - Blattodea - Rhinotermitidae

Taxonomy
Termes hartungi was named by Heer (1864). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Zurich collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Heterotermes hartungi by Snyder (1949); it was considered a nomen nudum by Hagen (1858); it was recombined as Reticulitermes hartungi by Weidner and Riou (1986), Nel and Paicheler (1993) and Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Termes hartungi Heer pp. 360, 366, 368 fig. 230
1949Heterotermes hartungi Snyder p. 364
1986Reticulitermes hartungi Weidner and Riou p. 354 figs. 10-12
1993Reticulitermes hartungi Nel and Paicheler p. 156
2013Reticulitermes hartungi Krishna et al. p. 824

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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
familyRhinotermitidae
subfamilyHeterotermitinae
genusReticulitermes
specieshartungi()

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.

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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: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Termes hartungi (type locality: 117252)