Zorotypus

Zorotypus
Zorotypus guineensis, wingless form
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Zoraptera
Family:	Zorotypidae
Subfamily:	Zorotypinae
Genus:	Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913 [1]
Type species
Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913
Synonyms
ZorapteraCaudell, 1923 (misspelling)

Zorotypus is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae.

Species

Zorotypus sp. from Ecuador

The type species is Zorotypus guineensis from West Africa. ^[2]

Other species are found worldwide, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. Four species occur north of the Tropic of Cancer, two in the Americas and others in Asia and Africa. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Genus ZorotypusSilvestri, 1913

Subgenus ZorotypusSilvestri, 1913

Species Zorotypus amazonensis Rafael & Engel, 2006 – Brazil (Amazonas)

Species Zorotypus asymmetristernum Mashimo, 2018 – Kenya

Species Zorotypus caxiuana Rafael, Godoi & Engel, 2008 – Brazil (Pará)

Species Zorotypus delamarei Paulian, 1949 – Madagascar

Species Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913 – Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast

Species Zorotypus shannoni Gurney, 1938 – Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso)

Species Zorotypus vinsoni Paulian, 1951 – Mauritius, Madagascar

Species † Zorotypus absonus Engel, 2008 – Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Miocene)

Species † Zorotypus denticulatus Yin, Cai & Huang, 2018 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus dilaticeps Yin, Cai, Huang & Engel, 2018 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus goeleti Engel & Grimaldi, 2000 – Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Miocene)

Species † Zorotypus mnemosyne Engel, 2008 – Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Miocene)

Species † Zorotypus palaeus Poinar, 1988 – Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Miocene)

Subgenus † Octozoros Engel, 2003

Species † Zorotypus acanthothorax Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus cenomanianus Yin, Cai & Huang, 2018 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus hirsutus Mashimo, 2018 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus hudae (Kaddumi, 2005) – Jordanian amber, Jordan (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus hukawngi Chen & Su, 2019 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus nascimbenei Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus pecten Mashimo, 2019 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus pusillus Chen & Su, 2019 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species Zorotypus komatsui Matsumura, Maruyama, Ntonifor & Beutel, 2023 ^[5] – Cameroon

Species † Zorotypus cretatus Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus oligophleps Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

Species † Zorotypus robustus Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018 – Burmese amber, Myanmar (Cretaceous)

References

1. Silvestri, F. (1913). "Descrizione di un nuovo ordine di insetti". Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici. 7: 193–209.
2. Maehr, Michael D.; Hopkins, Heidi (2021). "Zoraptera species file online, Version 5.0" . Retrieved 2021-10-03.
3. Mashimo, Yuta; Matsumura, Yoko; Beutel, Rolf G.; Njoroge, Laban; Machida, Ryuichiro (2018-03-04). "A remarkable new species of Zoraptera, Zorotypus asymmetristernum sp. n., from Kenya (Insecta, Zoraptera, Zorotypidae)". Zootaxa. 4388 (3): 407–416. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.6. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   29690444.
4. Kočárek, Petr; Horká, Ivona; Kundrata, Robin (2020). "Molecular Phylogeny and Infraordinal Classification of Zoraptera (Insecta)". Insects. 11 (1): 51. doi: 10.3390/insects11010051 . PMC   7023341 . PMID   31940956.
5. Matsumura, Y.; Maruyama, M.; Ntonifor, N.N.; Beutel, R.G. (2023). "A new species of Zoraptera, Zorotypus komatsui sp. nov. from Cameroon and a redescription of Zorotypus vinsoni Paulian, 1951 (Polyneoptera, Zoraptera)". ZooKeys (1178): 39–59. Bibcode:2023ZooK.1178...39M. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1178.108276 . PMC   10492039 . PMID   37692914.

External links

• Data related to Zorotypus at Wikispecies
• Media related to Zorotypus at Wikimedia Commons