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Mesotermopsis incompleta

Insecta - Blattodea

Taxonomy
Mesotermes incompletus was named by Ren (1995). Its type specimen is BL92201, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Chongqing Reservoir, west hills, Beijing, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone in the Lushangfen Formation of China. It is the type species of Mesotermes, Mesotermopsis.

It was recombined as Mesotermopsis incompletus by Engel and Ren (2003); it was recombined as Mesotermopsis incompleta by Krishna et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Mesotermes incompletus Ren p. 61 figs. Pl 6, fig 5; text-fig 3-16
2003Mesotermopsis incompletus Engel and Ren p. 536
2013Mesotermopsis incompleta Krishna et al. p. 2392

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
Euisoptera
subfamilyCretatermitinae
genusMesotermopsis
speciesincompleta()

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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 119.57000 to 113.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian119.57 - 113.2China (Beijing Shi) Mesotermes incompletus (type locality: 106965)