Oliver Zompro
Oliver Zompro is a German biologist who is credited with the discovery in 2002 of a new order of carnivorous African insects, Mantophasmatodea or "gladiators", which is sometimes relegated to subordinal status.
Zompro initially described gladiators from old museum specimens that originally were found in Namibia (Mantophasma zephyrum) and Tanzania (M. subsolanum), and from a 45-million-year-old specimen of Baltic amber (Raptophasma kerneggeri).[1]
Live specimens were found in Namibia by an international expedition in early 2002; Tyrannophasma gladiator was found on the Brandberg Massif, and Mantophasma zephyrum was found on the Erongoberg Massif.[2]
References
- ^ Zompro, Oliver; Adis, Joachim (2003). "Mantophasmatodea: Zur Entdeckung einer neuen Insektenordnung mit einer fossilen Art aus dem Baltikum und rezenten Arten aus Afrika". Verhandlungen / Westdeutscher Entomologentag. 2002: 53–62. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ Zompro, O.; Adis, J.; Bragg, P.E.; Naskrecki, P.; Meakin, K.; Wittneben, M.; Saxe, V. (2003). "A new genus and species of Mantophasmatidae (Insecta: Mantophasmatodea) from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia, with notes on behaviour". Cimbebasia. 19: 13–24.
External links
- New insect order found in Southern Africa
- New order of insects identified: Mantophasmatodea find their place in Class Insecta Archived 2009-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Man discovers a new life-form at a South African truck stop
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