The Zoraptera Database

Catalog of the Order Zoraptera

The order Zoraptera, originally established in 1913 by Silvestri, is one of the smallest and least known of the insect orders. It presently contains only one family, Zorotypidae Silvestri, with two genera and 38 nominal species (33 Recent and five fossil), most of which are tropical in distribution.

The number of described taxa in this order has increased by about 50% since the catalog of Hubbard (1990) appeared. This paper is an attempt to catalog all references in the scientific literature to the species of the order Zoraptera. No attempt, however, has been made to include all references in text-books, field guides, popular articles, and other sources not of the primary scientific literature.

Each mention of a taxon is given in chronological order, followed by the author of the reference, the date and page and figure numbers, if any. For each reference to a species the stage (adult male, adult female, nymph, egg) described or figured (if able to be determined) is listed. Other annotations are included as appropriate. The known geographical distribution for each species is listed at the end of its list of references. Following the taxonomic catalog is a list of non-specific references to Zoraptera which are of interest.


Genus Xenozorotypus Engel and Grimaldi

Xenozorotypus burmiticus Engel and Grimaldi

Genus Zorotypus Silvestri

Zorotypus (s.s.) acanthothorax Engel and Grimaldi

Zorotypus (s.s.) barberi Gurney

Zorotypus (s.s.) brasiliensis

Zorotypus (s.s.) buxtoni Karny

Zorotypus (s.s.) caudelli Karny

Zorotypus (s.s.) ceylonicus Silvestri

Zorotypus (s.s.) congensis van Ryn-Tournel

Zorotypus (s.s.) cramptoni Gurney

Zorotypus cretatus Engel and Grimaldi

Zorotypus (s.s.) delamarei Paulian

Zorotypus (s.s.) goeleti Engel and Grimaldi

Zorotypus (s.s.) guineensis Silvestri

Zorotypus (s.s.) gurneyi Choe

Zorotypus (s.s.) hamiltoni New

Zorotypus (s.s.) hubbardi Caudell

Zorotypus (s.s.) huxleyi Bolivar y Pieltain and Coronado G.

Zorotypus (s.s.) javanicus Silvestri

Zorotypus (s.s.) juinensis Engel

Zorotypus (s.s.) lawrencei New

Zorotypus (s.s.) leleupi Weidner

Zorotypus (s.s.) longicercatus Caudell

Zorotypus machadoi Delamare-Deboutteville

Zorotypus (s.s.) manni Caudell

Zorotypus (s.s.) medoensis Huang

Zorotypus (s.s.) mexicanus Bolivar y Pieltain

Zorotypus (Octozoros) nascimbenei Engel and Grimaldi

Zorotypus (s.s.) neotropicus Silvestri

Zorotypus (s.s.) newi (Chao and Chen)

Zorotypus (s.s.) palaeus Poinar

Zorotypus (s.s.) philippinensis Gurney

Zorotypus (s.s.) shannoni Gurney

Zorotypus (s.s.) silvestrii Karny

Zorotypus (s.s.) sinensis Huang

Zorotypus (s.s.) snyderi Caudell

Zorotypus (s.s.) swezeyi Caudell

Zorotypus (s.s.) vinsoni Paulian

Zorotypus (s.s.) weidneri New

Zorotypus (s.s.) zimmermani Gurney

Zorotypus (s.s.) sp. Costa Lima

Zorotypus (s.s.) sp. Denis

Zorotypus (s.s.) sp. de Zayas

Genus Menonia George

Menonia cochinensis George

General Non-Specific References to Zoraptera

Crampton, 1916:252 (phylogeny).

Crampton, 1919:65 (phylogeny).

Crampton, 1920a:119 (phylogeny).

Karny, 1923b:34 (phylogeny).

Wheeler, 1928:149.

Tillyard, 1935:266 (relationship to Permian order Copeognatha).

Wilson and Doner, 1937:100 (classification).

Crampton, 1938:173 (phylogeny).

Burgeon and Basilewsky, 1951:198.

Delamare-Deboutteville, 1952:148 (morphology).

Brues, Melander, and Carpenter, 1954:130 (classification).

Ross, 1955:201 (evolution).

Wilson, 1959:441 (New Guinea; "zorapteran" stage of rotting wood).

Königsmann, 1960:707 (phylogeny).

Wille, 1960:111 (phylogeny).

Alam, 1962:64 (phylogeny).

Bickley in Duckworth, 1966:173 (Maryland).

Sharov, 1968:17 (evolution).

Araujo, 1970:537 (Guyana; association with termites)

Kukalová-Peck, 1973:56 (classification).

Enghoff, 1976:45 (parthenogenesis unknown).

Hamilton, 1978:160.

Boudreaux, 1979:215 (phylogeny).

Matsuda, 1979:151 (neotony).

Skaife, 1979:79.

Hinton, 1981:507 (eggs).

Kristensen, 1981:149 (phylogeny).

Brown, 1982:393.

Fisher and Hespenheide, 1982:723 (Panama; prey of robber fly).

Roonwal, 1985:227 (wing microsculpturing).

Roonwal and Rathore, 1985:519 (wing microsculpturing).

Hölldobler and Wilson, 1986:50 (prey of ants).

Wilson and Hölldobler, 1986:77 (prey of ants).


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