Incisitermes KRISHNA

Engel, Michael S. & Krishna, K., 2007, Drywood termites in Dominican amber (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 57 (2), pp. 263-275 : 264

Genus Incisitermes KRISHNA

The genus Incisitermes was established by KRISHNA (1961) for 25 species distributed in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions, as well as in Southeast Asia and Oceanic islands. A single fossil species, Incisitermes krishnai EMERSON in Mexican amber, is known for the genus. Herein we newly record the genus from Dominican amber. Not surprisingly, the species of Incisitermes in Dominican amber is similar to I .. krishnai (vide Appendix). While imagoes in Dominican amber exhibit the same distinctive pronotal shape, wing venation, and distinctly swollen anterior margin to the wing scale, they differ in body proportions (metrics for the holotype and paratype of I. krishnai are provided in EMERSON, 1969) and are, therefore, segregated into a separate, new species.