Octozoros nascimbenei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zoraptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Supercohort: Polyneoptera Ordo: Zoraptera

Familia: Spiralizoridae
Subfamilia: Latinozorinae
Genus: †Octozoros
Species: †Octozoros nascimbenei

Name

Octozoros nascimbenei (Engel & Grimaldi, 2002)

Holotype: AMNH [amber collection, Division of Invertebrate Zoology]. Alate female; Myanmar: Cretaceous, Kachin: Tanai Village (on Ledo Rd. 105 km NW Myitkyna), coll. Leeward Capitol Corp., 2000, AMNH Bu-341.

Type locality: Myanmar: Cretaceous, Kachin: Tanai Village (on Ledo Rd. 105 km NW Myitkyna).

Synonymy

• Zorotypus nascimbenei Engel & Grimaldi, 2002: 7
• Zorotypus (Octozoros) nascimbenei: Engel, 2003: 148
• Octozoros nascimbenei: Kočárek, Kočárková & Kundrata, 2026 (comb. nov.)

References

Primary references

• Engel, M.S. 2003. Phylogeny of the Zoraptera. In: Klass, K.D. (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny: “Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders” (Dresden, September 19–21, 2003). Entomologische Abhandlungen 61(2): 147–148. PDF.
• Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2002. The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). American Museum Novitates 3362: 1–20. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)362<0001:TFMZI>2.0.CO;2 . hdl: 2246/2915 . Reference page. 
• Kočárek, P., Kočárková, I. & Kundrata, R. 2026. Morphology of male genitalia, legs, and wing venation reveals the classification of Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). Frontiers in Zoology 23: article number 8. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-025-00595-x . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Engel, M. S. 2003. Zoraptera. pp 1201-1203 In: Resh VH; Cardé RT (eds.) Encylopedia of Insects. Academic Press. Amsterdam.