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            <p> Termitaradus mitnicki Engel ,  sp. n.</p>
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            <p>Figs 1–2</p>
            <p>  Holotype. ♀, KU-DR-023.  Deposited in the  Fossil Insect Collection ,  Division of Entomology ,  University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. </p>
            <p> Figure |.  Termitaradus mitnicki sp. n. (KU DR-023), photomicrograph of female holotype, dorsal aspect (length of specimen 5.8 mm). </p>
            <p> Diagnosis. The new species is immediately distinctive for the network of dorsal, segmentally-arranged carinae (Fig. 1) and the absence of the small globular nodule-like setae of other species. Th e species is larger than most other termitaphidids (2–4 mm), approximating in size the anomalously large  T. protera in Mexican amber (5.8 mm vs. 7 mm). Like the other two fossil species,  T. mitnicki shares a greater number of lobules (4) on the terminal abdominal segment, whereas modern species have only 2–3. The number of lobules on most abdominal segments is greater than in any other species, living or fossil, of termitaphidid. </p>
            <p>Description. Female (adult): Total length 5.8 mm, maximal width 4.0 mm (length/width ratio 1.45). Integument generally reddish brown, although paler on sterna and on dorsal carinae (Fig. 1), lobules largely reddish brown although slightly lighter than body of laminae, apices of lobules more weakly sclerotized, paler than remainder; marginal setae typically pale yellow brown although some cleared, faint (the latter owing to preservation); ventrally faintly imbricate except longitudinally wrinkled on sterna (Fig. 2), with mediolateral areas glabrous, without punctures; dorsally imbricate without punctures, with distinct and complex network of thick carinae arranged segmentally (Fig. 1), such carinae not extending onto laminae (Fig. 1), without setae. Antenna four-segmented, geniculate; first article elongate, length slightly longer than combined lengths of remaining articles combined; remaining articles short, clyindrical, apicalmost apparently slightly swollen (challenging to see in specimen). Labium three-segmented, basalmost segment much shorter than others; second longest, third approximately three-quarters length of second.</p>
            <p>Legs with stout femora, greatest widths of femora 2.5–4× times width of tibiae; femora with widely scattered short setae on outer and inner surfaces; mesofemur ventrally with longitudinal row of 3–4 stiff, erect setae at about three-quarters length; metafemur with 4–5 long, fine, erect setae at about four-fifths length; tibiae with scattered short setae along lengths, particularly on outer surfaces, apically with patches of moderately dense, stiff setae; tarsi dimerous, basal tarsomere one-fourth to one-fifth length of apical tarsomere; pretarsal ungues (= claws) large, simple, without teeth; pulvilli present, slender, straplike, lengths nearly as long as that of pretarsal ungues.</p>
            <p>Marginal setae of laminae generally subtriangular to lanceolate in form, apparently with serrate margins, none clavate. Th irteen marginal laminae present [two for head, first distinctly larger than, almost twice as large as, second and with narrow separation; three for thorax (one lobule per thoracic segment); and one each for the eight abdominal segments, seventh and eighth the smallest, seventh slightly less than one-half that of first, eighth about one-fifth that of first (Fig. 2)]. Laminae with lobules arranged as follows: 15 (head I), 5–6 (head II), 18 (prothorax), 16 (mesothorax), 12 (metathorax), 14 (abdominal I), 15–16 (abdominal II), 15–16 (abdominal III), 17–18 (abdominal IV), 15–16 (abdominal V), 14–15 (abdominal VI), 8 (abdominal VII), and 4 (abdominal VIII).</p>
            <p>Male: Unknown.</p>
            <p>Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronym honoring Mr. Tyler Mitnick, nephew of Keith Luzzi who generously located and donated this fine specimen for study.</p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C6915BFFFBFFC6A8C9660EA359F916	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Engel, Michael	Engel, Michael (2009): A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae). ZooKeys 25 (45): 61-68, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.25.267
03C6915BFFFCFFC4A8C967FFA336FC87.text	03C6915BFFFCFFC4A8C967FFA336FC87.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Termitaphididae Myers 1924	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Key to adult females of  Termitaphididae</p>
            <p>The following key is updated and modified from the one provided by Usinger (1942).</p>
            <p> 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</p>
            <p> – 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 </p>
            <p>2. Dorsal integument imbricate and granular, with scattered globular nodulelike setae; without raised pattern of carinae ................................................ 3</p>
            <p> – 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.</p>
            <p>3. Flabella short and rounded, at most scarcely more than twice as long as broad ......................................................................................................... 4</p>
            <p>– Flabella elongate, much more than twice as long as broad.......................... 8</p>
            <p>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</p>
            <p> – 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 &amp; Doyen</p>
            <p>5. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules; anterior abdominal segments normally with seven or more lobules on each side ...................................... 6</p>
            <p>– Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules on each side ..................... 7</p>
            <p> 6. Flabella rounded; anterior abdominal segments with not more than seven lobules on each side [México; host:  Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae) ]..................................................................  T. mexicana (Silvestri)</p>
            <p> – Flabella short, clavate; anterior abdominal segments with eight or more lobules on each side [India; host:  Coptotermes heimi (Wasmann) (Coptotermitinae) ] .....................................................................  T. annandalei (Silvestri)</p>
            <p> 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) &amp;  H. tenuis (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae) ] ....................... ................................................................................  T. guianae (Morrison)</p>
            <p> – Flabella of second cephalic lobe much smaller, minute, scarcely surpassing margins, perfectly circular in form [Jamaica; host:  Heterotermes convexinotatus (Snyder) (Heterotermitinae) ] ................................  T. jamaicensis Myers</p>
            <p>8. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two or three lobules.............................. 9</p>
            <p> – Eighth abdominal lobes each with four lobules [Dominican amber; putative host:  Mastotermes electrodominicana Krishna &amp; Grimaldi (Mastotermitidae) ]..........................................  T. avitinquilinus Grimaldi &amp; Engel</p>
            <p>9. Eighth abdominal lobes each with two lobules......................................... 10</p>
            <p>– Eighth abdominal lobes each with three lobules....................................... 11</p>
            <p> 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)</p>
            <p> – 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)</p>
            <p> 11. Flabella lanceolate, very acute at apices [Panamá; hosts:  Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) &amp;  H. convexinotatus (Snyder) (Heterotermitinae) ] ........................ ................................................................................  T. panamensis Myers</p>
            <p> – Flabella moderately clavate, rounded at apices [Trinidad &amp; Tobago; host:  Heterotermes tenuis (Hagen) (Heterotermitinae) ]......  T. trinidadensis (Morrison)</p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C6915BFFFCFFC4A8C967FFA336FC87	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Engel, Michael	Engel, Michael (2009): A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae). ZooKeys 25 (45): 61-68, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.25.267
