page_title: Zoraptera
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Zoraptera / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Zorotypus guineensis. Insect order Zoraptera. The main illustration of the type specimen published by F. Sylvestri Bollettino del Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agraria della R. Scuola superiore d'agricoltura in Portici Volume 7 1913 pp. 193-209
context_page_description: The insect order Zoraptera, commonly known as angel insects, contains a single family, the Zorotypidae, which in turn contains one extant genus Zorotypus with 44 extant species and 11 species known from fossils. They are small and soft bodied insects with two forms: winged with wings sheddable as in termites, dark and with eyes and ocelli; or wingless, pale and without eyes or ocelli. They have a characteristic nine-segmented beaded antenna. They have mouthparts adapted for chewing and are mostly found under bark, in dry wood or in leaf litter.
context_section_description: 55 living and fossil species are found worldwide, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. Four species occur north of the Tropic of Cancer, two in the United States and two in Tibet.
  There are 44 extant and 11 extinct species known as of 2017, many of the fossil species are known from Burmese amber.
  †Zorotypus absonus Engel 2008 - Dominican Republic (Miocene) (fossil)
  †Zorotypus acanthothorax Engel & Grimaldi 2002 - Myanmar (Cretaceous) (fossil)
  Zorotypus amazonensis Rafael & Engel 2006 - Brazil (Amazonas)
  Zorotypus asymmetricus Kocarek 2017 - Brunei
  Zorotypus asymmetristernum Mashimo 2018 - Kenya
  Zorotypus barberi Gurney 1938 - Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  Zorotypus brasiliensis Silvestri 1947 - Brazil (Minas Gerais, Parana, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo)
  Zorotypus buxtoni Karny 1932 - Samoa
  Zorotypus caudelli Karny 1922 - Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia (peninsular)
  Zorotypus caxiuana Rafael, Godoi & Engel 2008 - Brazil (Para)
  †Zorotypus cenomanianus Yin, Cai & Huang 2017 - Myanmar (Cretaceous) (fossil)
  Zorotypus cervicornis Mashimo, Yoshizawa & Engel 2013 - Malaysia (peninsular)
  Zorotypus ceylonicus Silvestri 1913 - Sri Lanka
  Zorotypus congensis van Ryn-Tournel 1971 - Congo (Dem.Rep.)
  Zorotypus cramptoni Gurney 1938 - Guatemala
  †Zorotypus cretatus Engel & Grimaldi 2002 - Myanmar (Cretaceous)
  Zorotypus delamarei Paulian 1949 - Madagascar
  †Zorotypus denticulatus Yin, Cai & Huang 2017 - Myanmar (Cretaceous) (fossil)
  †Zorotypus goeleti Engel & Grimaldi 2000 - Dominican Republic (Miocene)
  Zorotypus guineensis Silvestri 1913 - Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast
  Zorotypus gurneyi Choe 1989 - Costa Rica, Panama
  Zorotypus hainanensis Yin & Li 2015 - China (Hainan Island)
  Zorotypus hamiltoni New 1978 - Colombia
  Zorotypus huangi Yin & Li 2017 - China (Yunnan)
  Zorotypus hubbardi Caudell 1918 - United States (mainland)
  †Zorotypus hudae (Kaddumi 2005) - Jordan (Cretaceous)
  Zorotypus huxleyi Bolivar y Pieltain & Coronado 1963 - Brazil (Amazonas), Peru
  Zorotypus impolitus Mashimo, Engel, Dallai, Beutel & Machida 2013 - Malaysia (peninsular)
  Zorotypus javanicus Silvestri 1913 - Indonesia (Java)
  Zorotypus juninensis Engel 2000 - Peru
  Zorotypus lawrencei New 1995 - Christmas Island
  Zorotypus leleupi Weidner 1976 - Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
  Zorotypus longicercatus Caudell 1927 - Jamaica
  Zorotypus magnicaudelli Mashimo, Engel, Dallai, Beutel & Machida 2013 - Malaysia (peninsular)
  Zorotypus manni Caudell 1923 - Bolivia, Peru
  Zorotypus medoensis Huang 1978 - China (Xizang)
  Zorotypus mexicanus Bolivar y Pieltain 1940 - Mexico
  †Zorotypus mnemosyne Engel 2008 - Dominican Republic (Miocene)
  †Zorotypus nascimbenei Engel & Grimaldi 2002 - Myanmar (Cretaceous)
  Zorotypus neotropicus Silvestri 1916 - Costa Rica
  Zorotypus newi Chao & Chen 2000 - Taiwan
  Zorotypus novobritannicus Terry & Whiting 2012 - Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
  † Zorotypus oligophleps Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018
  †Zorotypus palaeus Poinar 1988 - Dominican Republic (Eocene)
  Zorotypus philippinensis Gurney 1938 - Philippines
  † Zorotypus robustus Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018
  Zorotypus sechellensis Zompro 2005 - Seychelles
  Zorotypus shannoni Gurney 1938 - Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso)
  Zorotypus silvestrii Karny 1927 - Indonesia (Mentawai Islands)
  Zorotypus sinensis Huang 1974 - China (Xizang)
  Zorotypus snyderi Caudell 1920 - Jamaica, United States (Florida)
  Zorotypus swezeyi Caudell 1922 - United States (Hawaii)
  Zorotypus vinsoni Paulian 1951 - Mauritius
  Zorotypus weidneri New 1978 - Brazil (Amazonas)
  Zorotypus weiweii Wang, Li & Cai 2015 - Malaysia (Sabah)
  Zorotypus zimmermani Gurney 1939 - Fiji
  †Xenozorotypus burmiticus Engel & Grimaldi 2002 - Myanmar (Cretaceous)
caption: Zorotypus guineensis, wingless form
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