Zorotypus
| Zorotypus | |
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| Zorotypus sp. from Madagascar | |
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| Drawing of the type species Z. guineensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Zoraptera |
| Family: | Zorotypidae |
| Subfamily: | Zorotypinae |
| Genus: | Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913[1] |
| Type species | |
| Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Zoraptera Caudell, 1923 (misspelling) | |
Zorotypus is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae. It formerly contained all species in Zoraptera, but now only contains species found in Africa and South America.[2]
Species
[edit]The type species is Zorotypus guineensis from West Africa.[3] Species of the genus sensu stricto are known from Tropical Africa, spanning from West Africa to Madagascar, as well as Brazil.[2]
- Genus Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913
- Species Zorotypus amazonensis Rafael & Engel, 2006 – Brazil (Amazonas)
- Species Zorotypus asymmetristernum Mashimo, 2018[4] – 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 komatsui Matsumura, Maruyama, Ntonifor & Beutel, 2023[5] – Cameroon
- Unrevised extinct species
- Species †Zorotypus absonus Engel, 2008 – Dominican amber, Dominican Republic (Miocene)
- 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)
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.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
