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Genus of angel insects
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
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.
^
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 .
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