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<mods:title>Further evidence of Cretaceous termitophily: Description of new termite hosts of the trichopseniine Cretotrichopsenius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with emendations to the classification of lower termites (Isoptera)</mods:title>
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Engel
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,395,1742,1768]" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">Included genera.</emphasis>
Aside from the
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genus, the family includes the new genus
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Alate with head elongate, much like the longer alate heads of some
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<emphasis box="[513,664,1887,1912]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">Heterotermes</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[265,542,1922,1948]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">Heterotermes paradoxus</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[750,770,1923,1948]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">H</emphasis>
.
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), sub-rectangular, fontanelle absent (present in Neoisoptera) (
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,
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), Y-shaped cleavage scar absent; compound eyes small, circular (
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); ocelli absent (present in Icoisoptera); mandibles not extending beyond apex of labrum (
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),right mandible with two sharp marginal teeth and elongate apical tooth, without subsidiary tooth (present in
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and
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) [dentition known only for
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<emphasis box="[810,938,303,328]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">Tanytermes</emphasis>
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, obscured in
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<emphasis box="[1126,1287,302,328]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">Tanytermitalis</emphasis>
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]; antenna with 1418 articles (longer in
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and Teletisoptera, although some
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with as few as 15 articles) (
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). As in all termites with the exception of some basal groups like Melqartitermitidae and Mylacrotermitidae (
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), Tanytermitidae lack ventral cervical sclerites (observable only in
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). Pronotum flat (weakly saddle shaped in
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), either slightly narrower or broader than head. Tibial spur formula 232 or 332 (33
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); tarsi tetramerous (
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.
<emphasis box="[1425,1437,663,688]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">e</emphasis>
., second tarsomere absent—second tarsomere becomes cryptic in some Teletisoptera and then wholly absent in other clades) (
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); pretarsal claws simple, arolium present or absent. Wing membranes not reticulate; Sc, R, and Rs heavily pigmented, remaining longitudinal sectors lightly pigmented; forewing scale large, overlapping hind wing scale (plesiomorphy relative to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[1254,1381,914,941]" class="Insecta" family="Termitidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Blattodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="384" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Termitidae</taxonomicName>
); CuP (claval fissure) terminating on posterior wing margin prior to basal cleavage suture (
<emphasis box="[1153,1161,987,1012]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">i</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[1168,1180,987,1012]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">e</emphasis>
., inside of scale and not along suture—terminating on suture in many, but not all, basal Neoisoptera; reversed notably in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[1273,1400,1058,1085]" class="Insecta" family="Termitidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Blattodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="384" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Termitidae</taxonomicName>
); Sc short, R1 simple, Rs running parallel to costal margin, Rs without apical parallel posterior inferiors (apical parallel posterior inferiors present in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Desneux" authorityYear="1904" box="[1132,1313,1166,1193]" class="Insecta" family="Hodotermitidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Blattodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="384" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Hodotermitidae</taxonomicName>
), radial field narrow, M running about halfway between Rs and CuA and sclerotized like CuA (rather than like Rs). Hind wing without anal lobe (present in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Desneux" authorityYear="1904" box="[1176,1365,1274,1301]" class="Insecta" family="Mastotermitidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Blattodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="384" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Mastotermitidae</taxonomicName>
). Cerci dimerous (observable only in
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<emphasis box="[1167,1328,1310,1336]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">Tanytermitalis</emphasis>
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, unknown for
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<emphasis box="[849,977,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="384">Tanytermes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), as in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Froggatt" authorityYear="1897" box="[1060,1232,1346,1372]" class="Insecta" family="Kalotermitidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Blattodea" pageId="10" pageNumber="384" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Kalotermitidae</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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Cerci and forewing venation somewhat similar to some
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, likely a reflection of the position of Tanytermitidae as closer to Icoisoptera than to more basal grade termites (
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), but differing in the shorter CuA (subapical or apical termination in most Icoisoptera, terminating at apical third in Tanytermitidae). In addition, ocelli are present in imagoes of Icoisoptera, while lacking in the present family.
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