Zophotermes

Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A., Nascimbene, Paul C. & Singh, Hukam, 2011, The termites of Early Eocene Cambay amber, with the earliest record of the Termitidae (Isoptera), ZooKeys 148, pp. 105-123 : 113-114

Zophotermes ? indeterminate Figs 6B, 6C

Material.

Imago (wing and fragments only); Tad-95, India: Gujarat: Tadkeshwar lignite mine, Cambay Formation (Paleo-Eocene), 21°21.400"N, 73°4.532"E, 7-12 January 2009 (AMNH). Imago (wing fragment only); Tad-278, India: Gujarat: Tadkeshwar lignite mine, Cambay Formation (Paleo-Eocene), 21°21.400'N, 73°4.532'E, 17-22 January 2010 (AMNH). Imago (very badly crushed and obscured); SEMC-F000157, India: Gujarat: Tadkeshwar mine, Surat District, Cambay Basin, 21°19'26"N, 73°4'32"E, 7-12 January 2009 (SEMC). Imago (head, anterior thorax, and wing bases only); Tad-304, India: Gujarat: Tadkeshwar lignite mine, Cambay Formation (Paleo-Eocene), 21°21.400"N, 73°4.532"E, 17-22 January 2010 (AMNH).

Comments.

The above four specimens are too poorly preserved to permit conclusive assignment to any particular species but for each the observable details are indicative of a prorhinotermitine and they are apparently of the genus Zophotermes . Most, if not all, could be conspecific with Zophotermes ashoki described herein but we have hesitated to make a formal assignment as the condition of each is inadequate.