Termitaradus protera

Termitaradus protera is an extinct species of termite bug in the family Termitaphididae known from several Late Oligocene to Early Miocene fossils found in Mexico.

[3] Termitaradus protera is known from a series of fossil insects which are inclusions in transparent chunks of Mexican amber.

An amber specimen, in the collection of W. Weitschat of Hamburg, Germany, has a total of five T. protera individuals preserved together with portions of seven worker caste termites.

Each of the lobes is divided into between four and twelve lobules with circular to oblong outer margins along the edges of the insect.

As with some other Termitaradus species, the tibia of the frontmost leg, called a protibia, has a grouping of thick setae in a comb-like structure.