Zoraptera - Wikipedia
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.
Zoraptera - mindat.org
Zoraptera. 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 ...
Zoraptera - ScienceDirect
Jan 1, 2009 · The Zoraptera (“zorapterans,” “angel insects,” or less appropriately “soil lice”) are one of the smallest insect orders with only 35 living species and 10 more known from fossils. Zorapterans are rarely observed; indeed many entomologists have never seen them alive.
Zoraptera Species File
3 days ago · The Zoraptera Species File works to build a comprehensive source for knowledge about the world’s angel insects. Information found here includes valid names, synonyms, bibliographic data, specimen data, images, and distributions for angel insects of the world.
Zoraptera (Zorapterans) - Encyclopedia.com
Zoraptera is a small order of exopterygote neopteran insects, for which the only general common name is zorapterans, although "angel insects" occasionally has been used. The affinities of Zoraptera have long been debated, and the order has been regarded as distinct but difficult to place phylogenetically.
Zoraptera - GBIF
Divergent mating patterns and a unique mode of external sperm transfer in Zoraptera: an enigmatic group of pterygote insects. Naturwissenschaften (Naturwiss.) 100(6):581-594
Molecular Phylogeny and Infraordinal Classification of Zoraptera ...
Jan 12, 2020 · Zoraptera is a small and predominantly tropical insect order with an unresolved higher classification due to the extremely uniform external body morphology. We, therefore, conducted a multigene molecular phylogeny of extant Zoraptera and critically re-evaluated their morphological characters in order to propose a natural infraordinal ...
(PDF) 100 years Zoraptera - A phantom in insect evolution and …
Oct 4, 2014 · Zoraptera are a cryptic and enigmatic group of insects. The species diversity is lower than in almost all other groups of Hexapoda, but may be distinctly higher than presently known. Several new...
Zoraptera Silvestri 1913 - tolweb.org
Zoraptera are minute, hemimetabolous insects superficially resembling barklice (Psocoptera) or termites (Isoptera). Individuals are generally less than 3 mm in total body length, exclusive of their antennae, and are gregarious.
ORDER ZORAPTERA FROM HAWAII BY A. N. CAUDELL Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The species of Zorotypus herein described is based on speci mens received from Hawaii by Mr. Hebard, of Philadelphia, who kindly submitted them to the writer for determination. Considering the paucity of indigenous forms of ...