Oliver Zompro

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Oliver Zompro is a German biologist who is credited with the discovery in 2002 of a new order of carnivorous African insects, Mantophasmatodea or "gladiators", which is sometimes relegated to subordinal status.

Zompro initially described gladiators from old museum specimens that originally were found in Namibia ( Mantophasma zephyrum ) and Tanzania ( M. subsolanum ), and from a 45-million-year-old specimen of Baltic amber ( Raptophasma kerneggeri ). [1]

Live specimens were found in Namibia by an international expedition in early 2002; Tyrannophasma gladiator was found on the Brandberg Massif, and Mantophasma zephyrum was found on the Erongoberg Massif. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Zompro, Oliver; Adis, Joachim (2003). "Mantophasmatodea: Zur Entdeckung einer neuen Insektenordnung mit einer fossilen Art aus dem Baltikum und rezenten Arten aus Afrika". Verhandlungen / Westdeutscher Entomologentag. 2002: 53–62. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Zompro, O.; Adis, J.; Bragg, P.E.; Naskrecki, P.; Meakin, K.; Wittneben, M.; Saxe, V. (2003). "A new genus and species of Mantophasmatidae (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia, with notes on behaviour". Cimbebasia. 19: 13–24.


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