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Melqartitermes myrrheus

Insecta - Blattodea - Melqartitermitidae

Taxonomy
Melqartitermes myrrheus was named by Engel et al. (2007). Its type specimen is AMNH L-Iso1, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon. It is the type species of Melqartitermes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Melqartitermes myrrheus Engel et al. p. 13 fig. 3,4
2013Melqartitermes myrrheus Krishna et al. p. 2404

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
—Xylophagodea
infraorderIsoptera()
—Euisoptera
familyMelqartitermitidae
genusMelqartitermes
speciesmyrrheus

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.

†Melqartitermes myrrheus Engel et al. 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available