Parastylotermes
Name:
Parastylotermes
(near Stylotermes).
Phonetic: Pah-rah-sty-lo-ter-meez.
Named By: Thomas E. Snyder & Alfred E.
Emerson - 1949.
Classification: Arthropoda, Insecta, Blattodea,
Stylotermitidae.
Species: P. robustus (type),
P.
calico, P. frazieri, P. krishnai, P. washingtonensis.
Diet: Detritivore.
Size: Wings up to 11.5 millimetres long.
Known locations: India. Russia. USA,
California - Barstow Formation and Plush Ranch Formation,
Washington - Latah Formation.
Time period: Ypresian of the Eocene through to the
Serravallian of the Miocene.
Fossil representation: Many individuals.
Parastylotermes is a genus of termite that is known to have lived in both Eurasia and North America. So far, Eurasian species of Parastylotermes are known to have lived during the Eocene period, while the North American examples are from the later Miocene period. Specimens of Parastylotermes are so far from imago stage individuals, which are the flying ones that had left the main colony to spread out into new areas. Though some actual bodies are known, many of these specimens are just from isolated wings that have broken off the main body.
Further reading
- Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the
world. -
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 112: 366. - T. E.
Snyder - 1949.
- A new fossil termite, Parastylotermes frazieri,
from
California (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae). - Proceedings of the
Entomological Society of Washington 57 (2): 79–80. - T.
E. Snyder - 1955.
- Fossil arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico
Mountains nodules. - Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of
Sciences 575 (1): 13–24. - W. D. Pierce - 1958.
- Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera),
phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated
Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera).
-
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 146 (3):
243–304. - A. E. Emerson - 1971.
- Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota
in amber from the early Eocene of India. - Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107
(43): 18360–18365. - Jes Rusta, Hukam Singh, Rajendra
S. Rana, Tom McCann, Lacham Singh, Ken Andersond, Nivedita
Sarkar, Paul C. Nascimbenef, Frauke Stebner, Jennifer C.
Thomas, Monica Sol�rzano Kraemera, Christopher J. Williams,
Michael S. Engel, Ashok Sahnie & David Grimaldif -
2010.
- The termites of Early Eocene Cambay amber, with the earliest
record of the Termitidae (Isoptera). - ZooKeys 148:
105–123. - M. S. Engel, D. A. Grimaldi, P. C.
Nascimbene & H. Singh - 2011.
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