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Zorotypus palaeus

Insecta - Zoraptera - Zorotypidae

Taxonomy
Zorotypus palaeus was named by Poinar (1988). Its type specimen is USNM BLPC-7406, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Zorotypus palaeus Poinar p. 254 figs. 1-7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Haplocercata
orderZorapteraSilvestri 1913
familyZorotypidaeSilvestri 1913
genusZorotypusSilvestri 1913
speciespalaeus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Zorotypus palaeus Poinar 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available