Spiralizoros ceylonicus

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: Spiralizoridae
Subfamilia: Spiralizorinae
Genus: Spiralizoros
Species: Spiralizoros ceylonicus

Name

Spiralizoros ceylonicus (Silvestri, 1913)

Lectotype: Filippo Silvestri Museum, University of Naples “Federico II”, Portici, Italy, apterous adult male. ‘Insects found in / decayed wood. / Zorotypus ceylonicus Silv. / Typus! / Pundaluvya, Ceylon’. (designated by Kočárek & Kočárková, 2024)

Paralectotype: [same type specimen slide as lectotype], nymph.

Type locality: "Pundaluvya, Ceylon" [Pundaluoya, Sri Lanka].

Synonymy

Zorotypus ceylonicus Silvestri, 1913: 207
Spiralizoros ceylonicus (Silvestri, 1913): Kočárek et al. 2020
Aspiralizoros ceylonicus (Silvestri, 1913): Kočárek & Kočárková, 2024

References

Primary references

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.
Kočárek, P. & Kočárková, I. 2024. Aspiralizoros gen. nov. for Spiralizoros ceylonicus (Zoraptera: Spiralizoridae), an endemic species overlooked for more than a century. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 44(5): 2463–2470. DOI: 10.1007/s42690-024-01307-4 . ResearchGate . 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. BHL.