Prostylotermes

Prostylotermes
Temporal range: Ypresian
female Prostylotermes kamboja
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Infraorder: Isoptera
Family: Stylotermitidae
Genus: Prostylotermes
Species:
P. kamboja
Binomial name
Prostylotermes kamboja
Engel & Grimaldi, 2011

Prostylotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the isopteran family[1] Stylotermitidae known from two Eocene fossils found in India. The genus contains a single described species, Prostylotermes kamboja.[2]

  1. ^ Engel, M.S. (2011). "Family-group names for termites (Isoptera), redux". ZooKeys (148): 171–184. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..171E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1682. PMC 3264418. PMID 22287896.
  2. ^ Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A.; Nascimbene, P.C.; Singh, H. (2011). "The termites of Early Eocene Cambay amber, with the earliest record of the Termitidae (Isoptera)". ZooKeys (148): 105–123. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..105E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1797. PMC 3264413. PMID 22287892.