Zorotypus

Zorotypus
Zorotypus sp. from Madagascar
Drawing of the type species Z. guineensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Zoraptera
Family: Zorotypidae
Subfamily: Zorotypinae
Genus: Zorotypus
Silvestri, 1913
Type species
Zorotypus guineensis
Silvestri, 1913
Synonyms

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.

Species

The type species is Zorotypus guineensis from West Africa. Species of the genus sensu stricto are known from Tropical Africa, spanning from West Africa to Madagascar, as well as Brazil.

Genus 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 komatsui Matsumura, Maruyama, Ntonifor & Beutel, 2023 – 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

  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 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.
  3. ↑ Maehr, Michael D.; Hopkins, Heidi (2021). "Zoraptera species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  4. ↑ 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.
  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.