Zoraptera
Zoraptera is an order of insects, is one of the least diverse and most poorly understood insect lineages. Zoraptera are minute, hemimetabolous insects superficially resembling barklice (Psocoptera) or termites (Isoptera).
| Zoropterans Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent
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| Order: | Zoraptera Silvestri, 1913
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| Family: | Zorotypidae Silvestri, 1913
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| Genus: | Zorotypus Silvestri, 1913
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Description
Individuals are generally less than 3 mm in total body length, exclusive of their antennae, and are gregarious. Overall, zorapterans are quite homogenous in their morphology and tend to be off-white (mostly nymphs) to brown in color. Individuals of each species occur in two morphs: eyed and winged forms that then shed their wings after dispersal or blind and apterous forms that predominate in colonies.
Zoraptera Media
Winged fossil of Zorotypus hirsutus from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber, around 99 million years old
- Zorotypus
Other websites
Media related to Zoraptera at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Zoraptera at Wikispecies