Melqartitermes Engel et al. 2007 (termite)

Insecta - Blattodea - Melqartitermitidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel, D. A. Grimaldi, and K. Krishna. 2007. Primitive termites from the Early Cretaceous of Asia (Isoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 371:1-32

Parent taxon: Melqartitermitidae according to M. S. Engel 2021

See also Engel et al. 2007 and Krishna et al. 2013

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Melqartitermes myrrheus

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Type: Melqartitermes myrrheus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

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