Nanotermes

Nanotermes
Temporal range: Ypresian
N. isaacae holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Infraorder: Isoptera
Family: Termitidae
Genus: Nanotermes
Species:
N. isaacae
Binomial name
Nanotermes isaacae
Engel & Grimaldi, 2011

Nanotermes is an extinct genus of termites in the Isoptera family Termitidae known from only one Eocene fossil found in amber of the Cambay Basin (Gujarat, India). The genus contains a single described species, Nanotermes isaacae placed tentatively in the subfamily Termitinae.[1]

  1. ^ 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.