Mastotermes

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Termitoidae 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordo: Blattodea
Superfamilia: Blattoidea
Epifamilia: Termitoidae

Familia: Mastotermitidae
Genus: Mastotermes
Species: M. darwiniensis – †M. reticulatus – ...

Name

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Mastotermes Froggatt, 1897

References

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  • Froggatt, W.W. 1897: Australian Termitidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 21: 510–552.
  • Jiang, Y-R., Deng, X-R., Shih, C-K., Zhao, Y-Y., Ren, D. & Zhao, Z-P. 2024. Primitive new termites (Blattodea, Termitoidae) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. ZooKeys 1197: 115–126. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1197.114452   Reference page
  • Krishna, K.; Emerson, A.E. 1983: A new fossil species of termite from Mexican amber, Mastotermes electromexicus (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae). American Museum Novitates, (2767)
  • Krishna, K.; Grimaldi, D.A. 1991: A new fossil species from Dominican amber of the living Australian termite genus Mastotermes (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae). American Museum Novitates, (3021)
  • Wappler, T.; Engel, M.S. 2006: A new record of Mastotermes from the Eocene of Germany (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae). Journal of paleontology, 80: 380–385. PDF
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Vernacular names

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English: Giant Northern Termite