A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae) Author Engel, Michael University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Lawrence, United States of America text ZooKeys 2009 2009-10-23 25 45 61 68 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.25.267 b0cbcdc0-2d55-4888-a4a6-a0b085ee3271 1313–2970 576558 76B0B285-3584-4584-8E83-2CA543211D06 Key to adult females of Termitaphididae The following key is updated and modified from the one provided by Usinger (1942) . 1. Body egg-shaped, surrounded by a strongly incurved and upcurved, dorsolateral, segmentally divided lamina, the edges of which are further divided into distinct, often quite distantly separated lobules, each with a long, fine almost smooth flagellum [ Colombia ; host: Amitermes foreli Wasmann ( Termitidae : Termitinae )] ........................ Termitaphis circumvallata Wasmann – Entire body strongly flattened above and below and surrounded by a flat, lateral, segmentally divided lamina, the margin of which is crenulate, forming short, non-separated lobules, each provided with a short, circular, clavate, or lanceolate flabellum with serrate edges [Tropicopolitan; Genus Termitaradus Myers ; hosts, where known: Rhinotermitidae ] ........................................... 2 2. Dorsal integument imbricate and granular, with scattered globular nodulelike setae; without raised pattern of carinae ................................................ 3 – Dorsal integument imbricate with network of raised, thick carinae forming distinctive network, such carinae not extending onto laminae (Fig. 1) [Dominican amber; host: unknown] ...................................... T . mitnicki sp. n. 3. Flabella short and rounded, at most scarcely more than twice as long as broad ......................................................................................................... 4 – Flabella elongate, much more than twice as long as broad.......................... 8 4. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two or three lobules; anterior abdominal segments with 7–10 lobules on each side; size small ( 2–3.5 mm in length) ......... 5 – Eighth abdominal lobes each with four lobules; anterior abdominal segments with at least 12 lobules on each side; size large, over 7 mm in total length [Mexican amber; host: unknown] .................... T . protera Poinar & Doyen 5. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules; anterior abdominal segments normally with seven or more lobules on each side ...................................... 6 – Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules on each side ..................... 7 6. Flabella rounded; anterior abdominal segments with not more than seven lobules on each side [ México ; host: Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) ( Heterotermitinae )].................................................................. T . mexicana (Silvestri) – Flabella short, clavate; anterior abdominal segments with eight or more lobules on each side [ India ; host: Coptotermes heimi (Wasmann) ( Coptotermitinae )] ..................................................................... T . annandalei (Silvestri) 7. Flabella of second cephalic lobe half the size of other head and body flabella, but projecting conspicuously, ovate in form [ Guyana ; hosts: Heterotermes crinitus (Emerson) & H . tenuis (Hagen) ( Heterotermitinae )] ....................... ................................................................................ T . guianae (Morrison) – Flabella of second cephalic lobe much smaller, minute, scarcely surpassing margins, perfectly circular in form [ Jamaica ; host: Heterotermes convexinotatus (Snyder) ( Heterotermitinae )] ................................ T . jamaicensis Myers 8. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two or three lobules.............................. 9 – Eighth abdominal lobes each with four lobules [Dominican amber; putative host: Mastotermes electrodominicana Krishna & Grimaldi ( Mastotermitidae )].......................................... T . avitinquilinus Grimaldi & Engel 9. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules......................................... 10 – Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules....................................... 11 10. Flabella long, narrow, clavate, with straight sides and squarely truncate tips, not echinate; anterior abdominal lobes each with eight or more lobules [ Australia ; host: Coptotermes acinaciformis (Froggatt) ( Coptotermitinae )] ............ .......................................................................... T . australiensis (Mjöberg) – Flabella subcylindrical, rounded at apices or at most very obtusely pointed, echinate; anterior abdominal lobes each with seven lobules [Africa; host: Schedorhinotermes putorius (Sjöstedt) ( Heterotermitinae )] ........................... ................................................................................. T . subafra (Silvestri) 11. Flabella lanceolate, very acute at apices [ Panamá ; hosts: Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) & H . convexinotatus (Snyder) ( Heterotermitinae )] ........................ ................................................................................ T . panamensis Myers – Flabella moderately clavate, rounded at apices [ Trinidad & Tobago ; host: Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) ( Heterotermitinae )]...... T . trinidadensis (Morrison)