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Zorotypus 
Summary
Zorotypus is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae.
| 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[1] |
| Type species | |
| Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913
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| Synonyms | |
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Formosozoros Chao & Chen, 2000 | |
Species edit
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 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[5] – 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 edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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 edit
Data related to Zorotypus at Wikispecies
Media related to Zorotypus at Wikimedia Commons
