Octozoros robustus

Octozoros robustus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Zoraptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia 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 robustus

Name

Octozoros robustus (Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018)

Synonymy

• Zorotypus robustus Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018: 260
• Zorotypus hirsutus Mashimo in Mashimo et al., 2018: 563 [syn.: Kočárek, Kočárková & Kundrata, 2026]
  • Holotype: Patrick Müller’s private collection (depository number BUB2785). Alate female.
  • Type locality: Myanmar, Kachin State, Hukawng Valley; Albian-Cenomanian boundary, mid Cretaceous.
• Octozoros robustus: Kočárek, Kočárková & Kundrata, 2026 (comb. nov.)

References

Primary references

• 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. 
• Liu, J., Zhang, W., Cai, W. & Li, H. 2018. Two new species of angel insects in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Zoraptera: Zorotypidae). Cretaceous Research 90: 259–264. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.001 . Reference page. 
• Mashimo, Y., Müller, P., Pohl, H. & Beutel, R.G. 2018. The “hairy beast”—Zorotypus hirsutus sp. n., an unusual new species of Zoraptera (Insecta) from Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4508(4): 562–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.4.4 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Yin, Z., Cai, C., Huang, D. & Engel, M.S. 2018. Zorotypus dilaticeps sp. nov., a remarkable zorapteran (Zoraptera) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 91: 126–130. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.018 . Reference page.  [as synonym of Zorotypus cenomanianus]