The termites of Early Eocene Cambay amber, with the earliest record of the Termitidae (Isoptera)

Michael Engel; David Grimaldi; Paul Nascimbene; Hukam Singh

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Thomas Chouvenc, Jan Šobotník, Michael S. Engel, Thomas Bourguignon (2021)
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Nobuaki Mizumoto, Thomas Bourguignon (2021)
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A peculiar leg structure in the first non-biting midge described from Cambay amber, India (Diptera: Chironomidae). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107: 255.

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Hukam Singh (2021)
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Iwona Kania, Wiesław Krzemiński, Frauke Stebner, Hukam Singh (2016)
The first representative of Tipulomorpha (Diptera) from Early Eocene Cambay amber (India). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107: 263.

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Transoceanic Dispersal and Plate Tectonics Shaped Global Cockroach Distributions: Evidence from Mitochondrial Phylogenomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35: 970.

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Hukam Singh, Priya Agnihotri, Jyoti Sharma (2022)
Amber flora and fauna from Early Eocene Vastan Lignite Mine, Cambay Basin, Gujarat: Ecological Diversity and Environmental Significance. Journal of the Geological Society of India 98: 661.

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Jochen Heinrichs, Armin Scheben, Julia Bechteler, Gaik Ee Lee, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp, Lars Hedenäs, Hukam Singh, Tamás Pócs, Paul C. Nascimbene, Denilson F. Peralta, Matt Renner, Alexander R. Schmidt, William Oki Wong (2016)
Crown Group Lejeuneaceae and Pleurocarpous Mosses in Early Eocene (Ypresian) Indian Amber. PLOS ONE 11: e0156301.

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Early Cretaceous termites in amber from northern Spain (Isoptera). Cretaceous Research 110: 104385.

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Simon Hellemans, Menglin Wang, Nonno Hasegawa, Jan Šobotník, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Thomas Bourguignon (2022)
Using ultraconserved elements to reconstruct the termite tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 173: 107520.

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Johanna Romero Arias, Arthur Boom, Menglin Wang, Crystal Clitheroe, Jan Šobotník, Petr Stiblik, Thomas Bourguignon, Yves Roisin (2021)
Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of Apicotermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae). Systematic Entomology 46: 741.

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Diverse, primitive termites (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae,incertae sedis) from the early Miocene of New Zealand. Austral Entomology 56: 94.

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Hannah M. Wood, Hukam Singh, David A. Grimaldi (2021)
Another Laurasian connection in the Early Eocene of India: Myrmecarchaea spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae). ZooKeys 1071: 49.

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Michael S. Engel, Ellen D. Currano, Bonnie F. Jacobs (2015)
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Prem Raj Uddandam, Priya Agnihotri, Shailesh Agrawal, Hukam Singh (2023)
Early Eocene biotic assemblage from the sedimentary deposits of the Tarkeshwar Lignite Mine, Gujarat and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Journal of Palaeosciences 72: 127.

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Wei-Ren Liang, Chia-Chien Wu, Hou-Feng Li (2017)
Discovery of a Cryptic Termite Genus, Stylotermes (Isoptera: Stylotermitidae), in Taiwan, With the Description of a New Species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 110: 360.

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Amanda de Faria Santos, Eliana Marques Cancello, Adriana Coletto Morales (2022)
Phylogeography of Nasutitermes ephratae (Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae) in neotropical region. Scientific Reports 12: .

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Chenyang Cai, Diying Huang, Alfred F. Newton, K. Taro Eldredge, Michael S. Engel (2017)
Early Evolution of Specialized Termitophily in Cretaceous Rove Beetles. Current Biology 27: 1229.

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Aleš Buček, Menglin Wang, Jan Šobotník, Simon Hellemans, David Sillam-Dussès, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Petr Stiblík, Crystal Clitheroe, Tomer Lu, Juan José González Plaza, Alma Mohagan, Jean-Jacques Rafanomezantsoa, Brian Fisher, Michael S. Engel, Yves Roisin, Theodore A. Evans, Rudolf Scheffrahn, Thomas Bourguignon, Koichiro Tamura (2022)
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Frauke Stebner, Ryszard Szadziewski, Hukam Singh, Simon Gunkel, Jes Rust, Thierry Smith (2017)
Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Cambay Amber Indicate that the Eocene Fauna of the Indian Subcontinent Was Not Isolated. PLOS ONE 12: e0169144.

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Frauke Stebner, Hukam Singh, Jes Rust, David A. Grimaldi (2017)
Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea) in early Eocene Cambay amber. PeerJ 5: e3313.

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