Zophotermes
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Ordo: Isoptera
Familia: Rhinotermitidae
Name
Zophotermes Engel gen. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Zophotermes ashoki Engel & Singh, sp. n.
Diagnosis
Imago: Head not flattened, narrow oval in shape, with sides somewhat parallel (appears similar to condition in Heterotermitinae but there is some compression which may be obscuring slightly roundish borders), posterior margin even; postclypeus without nose-like projection, without groove from fontanelle to apex of labrum, short relative to width, somewhat arched (as in Prorhinotermitinae); compound eyes small; ocelli present. Pronotum flat, narrower than head, anterior margin with medial emargination (Fig. 5); tibial spurs 2-2-2 (3-2-2 in Prorhinotermes Silvestri, Psammotermitinae, and Heterotermitinae); tarsi tetramerous. Forewing with scale overlapping hind wing scale; M branching from CuA outside of scale (Fig. 5) (as in Prorhinotermitinae and Psammotermitinae); wing membrane with relatively few setae (as in Prorhinotermitinae).
Etymology
The new genus-group name is a combination of zophos (Greek, meaning, “nether world” or “gloom”), and Termes, type genus of the Termitidae. The name is masculine.
Original Description
- Engel, M; Grimaldi, D; Nascimbene, P; Singh, H; 2011: The termites of Early Eocene Cambay amber, with the earliest record of the Termitidae (Isoptera) ZooKeys, 148: 105-123. doi
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