| Zorotypus | |
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| Zorotypus guineensis, wingless form | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Zoraptera |
| Family: | Zorotypidae |
| Subfamily: | Zorotypinae |
| Genus: | Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Formosozoros Chao & Chen, 2000 | |
Zorotypus is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae.
Species
The type species is Zorotypus guineensis from West Africa.
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.
- Genus Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913
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- Subgenus Zorotypus Silvestri, 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 Republic (Miocene)
- Species †Zorotypus denticulatus Yin, Cai & Huang, 2018
- Species †Zorotypus dilaticeps Yin, Cai, Huang & Engel, 2018
- Species †Zorotypus goeleti Engel & Grimaldi, 2000 – Dominican Republic (Miocene)
- Species †Zorotypus mnemosyne Engel, 2008 – Dominican Republic (Miocene)
- Species †Zorotypus palaeus Poinar, 1988 – Dominican Republic (Miocene)
- Subgenus †Octozoros Engel, 2003
- Species †Zorotypus acanthothorax Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus cenomanianus Yin, Cai & Huang, 2018 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus hirsutus Mashimo, 2018 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus hudae (Kaddumi, 2005) – Jordan (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus hukawngi Chen & Su, 2019 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus nascimbenei Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus pecten Mashimo, 2019 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus pusillus Chen & Su, 2019 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species Zorotypus komatsui Matsumura, Maruyama, Ntonifor & Beutel, 2023 – Cameroon
- Species †Zorotypus cretatus Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
- Species †Zorotypus oligophleps Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018
- Species †Zorotypus robustus Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018
References
- 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.
- ^ Maehr, Michael D.; Hopkins, Heidi (2021). "Zoraptera species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2021-10-03.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1178.108276.
External links
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