Insecta - Zoraptera - Zorotypidae

Full reference: G. O. Poinar. 1988. Zorotypus palaeus, new species, a fossil Zoraptera (Insecta) in Dominican amber. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96:253-259

Belongs to Zorotypus according to G. O. Poinar 1988

Sister taxa: Zorotypus (Octozoros), Zorotypus (Zorotypus), Zorotypus cretatus

Type specimen: USNM BLPC-7406, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

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