Zorotypus
Zorotypus guineensis, wingless form
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Synonyms

Formosozoros Chao & Chen, 2000
Zoraptera Caudell, 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 Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913
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
Zoraptera incertae sedis
Species Zorotypus congensis Van-Ryn-Tournel, 1971 – Congo (Dem.Rep.)
Species Zorotypus javanicus Silvestri, 1913 – Indonesia (Java)
Species Zorotypus juninensis Engel, 2000 – Peru
Species Zorotypus lawrencei New, 1995 – Christmas Island
Species Zorotypus leleupi Weidner, 1976 – Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
Species Zorotypus longicercatus Caudell, 1927 – Jamaica
Species Zorotypus newi (Chao & Chen, 2000) – Taiwan
Species Zorotypus sechellensis Zompro, 2005 – Seychelles
Species Zorotypus swezeyi Caudell, 1922 – United States (Hawaii)

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. 1 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1178.108276.
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