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Otagotermes novazealandicus

Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae

Taxonomy
Otagotermes novazealandicus was named by Engel and Kaulfuss (2016). Its type specimen is OU 44976, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Foulden maar (I43/f8503), which is in an Aquitanian crater lake diatomite in the Foulden Hills Diatomite Formation of New Zealand. It is the type species of Otagotermes.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2016Otagotermes novazealandicus Engel and Kaulfuss p. 99 fig. 4

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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
familyKalotermitidae()
genusOtagotermes
speciesnovazealandicus

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.

†Otagotermes novazealandicus Engel and Kaulfuss 2016
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available