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Termitaradus avitinquilinus
''Termitaradus avitinquilinus'' is an extinct species of termite bug in the family Termitaphididae known from several possibly Miocene fossils found in the Dominican Republic. ''T. avitinquilinus'' is the first species in the genus ''Termitaradus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of four species from New World amber, the others being ''Termitaradus protera'', ''Termitaradus dominicanus'' and ''Termitaradus mitnicki''.
==History and classification==
''Termitaradus avitinquilinus'' is known from a group of three fossil insects which are inclusions in transparent chunks of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The holotype amber specimen, DR-14-425, is currently housed in the amber fossil collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, while the two paratype specimens are in the private Morone amber collection in Turin, Italy. The holotype fossil is composed of a complete adult individual that was collected from an unidentified amber mine〔 in fossil-bearing rocks in the Cordillera Septentrional mountains of northern Dominican Republic.〔 The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil foraminifera and may be as old as the Middle Eocene, based on the associated fossil coccoliths. This age range is due to the host rock being secondary deposits for the amber and the Miocene the age range is only the youngest that it might be.〔 The fossil was examined by paleoentomologists David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel, both of the American Museum of Natural History. Grimaldi and Engel's 2008 type description of the new species was published in the natural sciences journal ''American Museum Novitates''.〔 The specific epithet ''avitinquilinus'' from the Latin word "avitus" meaning ''ancestral'' and the word"inquilinus" which translates to ''lodger''.〔
The two paratype specimens are preserved in a single piece of amber in close association with a worker caste ''Mastotermes electrodominicus'' termite. It was suggested by Grimaldi and Engel that ''T. avitinquilinus'' cohabited with ''M. electrodominicus''. Modern termite bugs live in the nests of rhinotermitid termites, and this is the first and only known association of termite bugs and ''Mastotermes'' termites.〔
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