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Zoraptera
The insect order Zoraptera, commonly known as angel insects, contains small and soft bodied insects with two forms: winged with wings sheddable as in termites, dark and with eyes (compound) and ocelli (simple); or wingless, pale and without eyes or ocelli. They have a characteristic nine-segmented beaded (moniliform) antenna. They have mouthparts adapted for chewing and are mostly found under bark, in dry wood or in leaf litter. Description The name Zoraptera, given by Filippo Silvestri in 1913, is misnamed and potentially misleading: "zor" is Greek for pure and "aptera" means wingless. "Pure wingless" clearly does not fit the winged alate forms, which were discovered several years after the wingless forms had been described. The members of this order are small insects, or less in length, that resemble termites in appearance and in their gregarious behavior. They are short and swollen in appearance. They belong to the hemimetabolous insects. They possess mandibulated bitin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Zorotypus''Silvestri F (1913) ''Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Portici'' 7: 196. is a genus of Zoraptera, angel insects in the family Zorotypidae. Species The type species is ''Zorotypus guineensis'' from West Africa. Other species are found worldwide, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. Four species occur north of the Tropic of Cancer, two in the Americas and others in Asia and Africa. ;Genus ''Zorotypus'' Silvestri, 1913 :; Subgenus ''Zorotypus'' Silvestri, 1913 :: Species ''Zorotypus amazonensis'' Rafael & Engel, 2006 - Brazil (Amazonas) :: Species ''Zorotypus asymmetristernum'' Mashimo, 2018 - Kenya :: Species ''Zorotypus caxiuana'' Rafael, Godoi & Engel, 2008 - Brazil (Para) :: Species ''Zorotypus delamarei'' Paulian, 1949 - Madagascar :: Species ''Zorotypus guineensis'' Silvestri, 1913 - Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast :: Species ''Zorotypus shannoni'' Gurney, 1938 - Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso) :: Species ''Zorotypus vinsoni'' Paulian, 1951 - Mauritius :: Species †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zorotypus
''Zorotypus''Silvestri F (1913) ''Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Portici'' 7: 196. is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae. Species The type species is '' Zorotypus guineensis'' from West Africa. Other species are found worldwide, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. Four species occur north of the Tropic of Cancer, two in the Americas and others in Asia and Africa. ;Genus ''Zorotypus'' Silvestri, 1913 :; Subgenus ''Zorotypus'' Silvestri, 1913 :: Species '' Zorotypus amazonensis'' Rafael & Engel, 2006 - Brazil (Amazonas) :: Species '' Zorotypus asymmetristernum'' Mashimo, 2018 - Kenya :: Species '' Zorotypus caxiuana'' Rafael, Godoi & Engel, 2008 - Brazil (Para) :: Species '' Zorotypus delamarei'' Paulian, 1949 - Madagascar :: Species '' Zorotypus guineensis'' Silvestri, 1913 - Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast :: Species '' Zorotypus shannoni'' Gurney, 1938 - Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso) :: Species '' Zorotypus vinsoni'' Paulian, 1951 - Mauritius :: Species †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spermozoros
''Spermozoros'' is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae. There are six described species in ''Spermozoros'', transferred to ''Spermozoros'' from the genus ''Zorotypus ''Zorotypus''Silvestri F (1913) ''Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Portici'' 7: 196. is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae. Species The type species is '' Zorotypus guineensis'' from West Africa. Other species are found worldwide ...'' as a result of research published in 2020. Species These species belong to the genus ''Spermozoros'': * '' Spermozoros asymmetricus'' (Kocarek, 2017) * '' Spermozoros huangi'' (Yin & Li, 2017) * '' Spermozoros impolitus'' (Mashimo, Engel, Dallai, Beutel & Machida, 2013) * '' Spermozoros medoensis'' (Huang, 1976) * '' Spermozoros sinensis'' (Huang, 1974) * '' Spermozoros weiweii'' (Wang, Li & Cai, 2016) References Zoraptera {{insect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiralizoros
''Spiralizoros'' is a genus of zorapterans in the family Spiralizoridae. There are about eight described species in ''Spiralizoros''. The species of this genus were transferred from the genus ''Zorotypus ''Zorotypus''Silvestri F (1913) ''Boll. Lab. Zool. gen. agr. Portici'' 7: 196. is a genus of angel insects in the family Zorotypidae. Species The type species is '' Zorotypus guineensis'' from West Africa. Other species are found worldwide ...'' as a result of research published in 2020. Species These species belong to the genus ''Spiralizoros'': * '' Spiralizoros buxtoni'' (Karny, 1932) * '' Spiralizoros caudelli'' (Karny, 1923) * '' Spiralizoros cervicornis'' (Mashimo, Yoshizawa & Engel, 2013) * '' Spiralizoros ceylonicus'' (Silvestri, 1913) * '' Spiralizoros hainanensis'' (Yin & Li, 2015) * '' Spiralizoros magnicaudelli'' (Mashimo, Engel, Dallai, Beutel & Machida, 2013) * '' Spiralizoros philippinensis'' (Gurney, 1938) * '' Spiralizoros silvestrii'' (Karny, 1927) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embioptera
The order Embioptera, commonly known as webspinners or footspinners, are a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical insects, classified under the subclass Pterygota. The order has also been called Embiodea or Embiidina. More than 400 species in 11 families have been described, the oldest known fossils of the group being from the mid-Jurassic. Species are very similar in appearance, having long, flexible bodies, short legs, and only males having wings. Webspinners are gregarious, living subsocially in galleries of fine silk which they spin from glands on their forelegs. Members of these colonies are often related females and their offspring; adult males do not feed and die soon after mating. Males of some species have wings and are able to disperse, whereas the females remain near where they were hatched. Newly mated females may vacate the colony and found a new one nearby. Others may emerge to search for a new food source to which the galleries can be extended, but in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insect
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Their blood is not totally contained in vessels; some circulates in an open cavity known as the haemocoel. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; In: potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within. Nearly all insects hatch f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burmese Amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The amber is of significant palaeontological interest due to the diversity of flora and fauna contained as inclusions, particularly arthropods including insects and arachnids but also birds, lizards, snakes, frogs and fragmentary dinosaur remains. The amber has been known and commercially exploited since the first century AD, and has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century. Research on the deposit has attracted controversy due to its alleged role in funding internal conflict in Myanmar and hazardous working conditions in the mines where it is collected. Geological context, depositional environment and age The amber is found within the Hukawng Basin, a large Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentary basin within northern Myanmar. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filippo Silvestri
Filippo Silvestri (22 June 1873 – 10 June 1949) was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda and Italian Diptera. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was nominated to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the scientific academy of the Vatican. Silvestri was born in Bevagna. A keen young naturalist, he became assistant to Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925), Director of the Institute of Anatomical Research of the University of Rome. In 1904, Silvestri became Director of the Institute of Entomology and Zoology at the agricultural college in Portici (the Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, now Faculty of Agriculture), a position he held for 45 years. He discovered polyembryony in the 1930s while working on ''Litomatix truncatellus'' Hymenoptera. His collection is in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Duplica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
