Zorotypus (Octozoros)

Zorotypus hirsutus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zoraptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Supercohort: Polyneoptera Ordo: Zoraptera

Familia: Zorotypidae
Subfamilia: Zorotypinae
Genus: Zorotypus
Subgenus: †Zorotypus (Octozoros)
Species: †Z. acanthothorax – †Z. hirsutus – †Z. hudae – †Z. hukawngi – †Z. nascimbenei – †Z. pecten – †Z. pusillus

Name

Octozoros Engel, 2003: 148

Type species: Zorotypus nascimbenei Engel & Grimaldi, 2002, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Paleospinosus Kaddumi, 2005: 17 [syn.: Engel, 2008: 133]
  • Type species: Paleospinosus hudae Kaddumi, 2005, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Engel, M.S. 2003. Phylogeny of the Zoraptera. In: Klass, K.D. (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny: “Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders” (Dresden, September 19–21, 2003). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(2): 147–148. PDF.
• Engel, M.S. 2008. A new apterous Zorotypus in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae). Acta Entomologica Slovenica 16(2): 127–136. PDF. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Chen, X-Y. & Su, G-F. 2019. Zorotypus hukawngi sp. nov., a Fossil Winged Zoraptera (Insect) in Burmese Amber. Zootaxa 4571(2): 263–269. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.6 . Plazi. Reference page. 
• Chen, X. & Su, G. 2019. A new species of Zorotypus (Insecta, Zoraptera, Zorotypidae) and the earliest known suspicious mating behavior of Zorapterans from the mid-cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(3): 555–560. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12283 . Reference page. 
• 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. Online (raco.cat), Online (revistes.ub.edu). Reference page. 
• Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2002. The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). American Museum Novitates 3362: 1–20. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)362<0001:TFMZI>2.0.CO;2 . hdl: 2246/2915 . Reference page. 
• Kočárek, P., Horká, I. & Kundrata, R. 2020. Molecular Phylogeny and Infraordinal Classification of Zoraptera (Insecta). Insects 11(1): 51. DOI: 10.3390/insects11010051 . Reference page. 
• Mashimo, Y., Müller, P. & Beutel, R.G. 2019. Zorotypus pecten, a new species of Zoraptera (Insecta) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4651(3): 565–577. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.3.9 . Plazi. Reference page. 
• 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 Reference page.