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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Anartioptera
Magnordo: Polyplecoptera
Superordo: Plecopterida
Mirordo: Mystroptera
Ordo: Zoraptera

Familia: Zorotypidae
Genus: Zorotypus

Species (15): Z. amazonensis – Z. asymmetristernum – Z. caxiuanus – Z. delamarei – Z. guineensis – Z. shannoni – Z. vinsoni – †Z. absonus – †Z. acanthothorax – †Z. cretatus – †Z. goeleti – †Z. hirsutus – †Z. hudae – †Z. mnemosyne – †Z. nascimbenei – †Z. palaeus
Name

Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913
Type species

Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913, by original designation
References
cited sources

Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. 2000: A winged Zorotypus in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), with discussion on relationships of and within the order. Acta geologica hispanica, 35: 149–164.
Kukalová-Peck, J.; Peck, S.B. 1993: Zoraptera wing structures: evidence for new genera and relationship with the blattoid orders (Insecta: Blattoneoptera). Systematic Entomology 18: 333–350. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00670.x
Mashimo, Y., Matsumura, Y., Beutel, R.G., Njoroge, L. & Machida, R. 2018. 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 Reference page.
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. Internet Archive BHL

Additional references

Engel, M.S. 2008: A new apterous Zorotypus in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae). Acta entomologica slovenica, 16 (2).
Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. 2002: The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). American Museum novitates, (3362) DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)362<0001:TFMZI>2.0.CO;2 PDF
Hubbard, M.D. 1990: Insecta Mundi, 4: 48–66. [1]
Mashimo, Y. et al. 2013: Zorotypus in Peninsular Malaysia (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 3717(4): 498–514. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.4 Reference page.
Poinar, G.O., jr. 1988: Zorotypus palaeus, new species, a fossil Zoraptera (Insecta) in Dominican amber. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 96: 253–259. JSTOR
Mashimo, Y., Müller, P., Pohl, H. & Beutel, R.G. 2018. The “hairy beast”—Zorotypus hirsutus sp. n., an unusual new species of Zoraptera (Insecta) from Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4508(4): 562–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.4.4 Paywall Reference page.

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Vernacular names
English: Zoropterans

Zorotypus[1] 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 (Para)
Species Zorotypus congensis Van-Ryn-Tournel, 1971 - Congo (Dem.Rep.)
Species Zorotypus delamarei Paulian, 1949 - Madagascar
Species Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913 - Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast
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 shannoni Gurney, 1938 - Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso)
Species Zorotypus swezeyi Caudell, 1922 - United States (Hawaii)
Species Zorotypus vinsoni Paulian, 1951 - Mauritius
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
Species †Zorotypus mnemosyne Engel, 2008
Species †Zorotypus palaeus Poinar, 1988
Subgenus †Octozoros Engel, 2003
Species †Zorotypus acanthothorax Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 - Myanmar (Cretaceous)
Species †Zorotypus cenomanianus Yin, Cai & Huang, 2018 - Myanmar (Cretaceous)
Species †Zorotypus hirsutus
Species †Zorotypus hudae (Kaddumi, 2005) - Jordan (Cretaceous)
Species †Zorotypus hukwangi Chen & Su, 2019
Species †Zorotypus nascimbenei Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 - Myanmar (Cretaceous)
Species †Zorotypus pecten Mashimo, 2019
Species †Zorotypus pusillus Chen & Su, 2019

Species †Zorotypus cretatus Engel & Grimaldi, 2002
Species Zorotypus magnicaudelli Mashimo, Y.; Yoshizawa, K.; Engel, M.S.; Ghani, I.A.; Dallai, R.; Beutel, R.G. & Machida, 2013
Species †Zorotypus oligophleps Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018
Species †Zorotypus robustus Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018

References

Silvestri F (1913) Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Portici 7: 196.
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.

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