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Pterotermopsis fouldenica

Insecta - Blattodea - Kalotermitidae

Taxonomy
Pterotermopsis fouldenica was named by Engel and Kaulfuss (2016). Its type specimen is OU 44989, 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 Pterotermopsis.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2016Pterotermopsis fouldenica Engel and Kaulfuss p. 100 fig. 5

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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()
genusPterotermopsis
speciesfouldenica

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.

Pterotermopsis fouldenica Engel and Kaulfuss 2016
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available