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Genus Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913

  • Zorotypus Silvestri, F. 1913. Descrizione di un nuovo ordine di insetti. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Facoltà Agraria in Portici 7: 193-209 [205].
    Type species:
     Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri, 1913 by original designation.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Parts of western Pacific.


Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)

Oriental Region

Distribution References

  • Gurney, A.B. 1938. A synopsis of the order Zoraptera, with notes on the biology of Zorotypus hubbardi Caudell. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 40: 57-87
  • New, T.R. 1978. Notes on neotropical Zoraptera, with descriptions of two new species. Systematic Entomology 3: 361-370
  • Kukalová-Peck, J. & Peck, S.B. 1993. Zoraptera wing structures: evidence for new genera and relationship with the blattoid orders (Insecta: Blattoneoptera). Systematic Zoology 18: 333-350