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Prostylotermes
''Prostylotermes'' is an extinct genus of termite in the isopteran family Stylotermitidae known from two Eocene fossils found in India. The genus contains a single described species, ''Prostylotermes kamboja''.
==History and classification==
''Prostylotermes'' is known from only two fossils, the holotype female and a single paratype male, both of which are inclusions in a transparent chunk of amber.〔 The amber, number "Tad-321C" is housed in the fossil collection of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India. Both the holotype and paratype are composed of mostly complete adult termites though some areas of the female were lost on the surface of the amber specimen.〔 Cambay amber dates to between fifty and fifty-two million years old, placing it in the Early to Mid Ypresian age of the Eocene, and was preserved in a brackish shore environment. The amber formed from a dammar type resin which is produced mainly by trees in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The ''Prostylotermes'' type specimen was recovered from an the Tadkeshwar lignite mine, located in Gujarat State, during a collecting trip during January 2010.〔 The fossil was first studied by paleoentomologists Michael S. Engel and David Grimaldi, both of the American Museum of Natural History.〔 Engel and Grimaldi's 2011 type description of the new genus and species was published in the online journal ''ZooKeys''.〔 The genus name ''Prostylotermes'' was coined as a combination of the Greek word ''pro'' meaning "before" and ''Stylotermes'', the type genus of Stylotermitidae. The specific epithet ''kamboja'' is in reference to the Kamboja tribe of ancient India literature who settled the area now called Khambat and formerly called Cambay.〔
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