The type species is Zorotypus guineensis from West Africa.[2]
Other species are found worldwide, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. Four species occur north of the Tropic of Cancer, two in the Americas and others in Asia and Africa.[2][3][4]
Species †Zorotypus cretatus Engel & Grimaldi, 2002 – Myanmar (Cretaceous)
Species †Zorotypus oligophleps Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018
Species †Zorotypus robustus Liu, Zhang, Cai & Li, 2018
Zoraptera incertae sedis
Species Zorotypus congensis Van-Ryn-Tournel, 1971 – Congo (Dem.Rep.)
Species Zorotypus javanicus Silvestri, 1913 – Indonesia (Java)
Species Zorotypus juninensis Engel, 2000 – Peru
Species Zorotypus lawrencei New, 1995 – Christmas Island
Species Zorotypus leleupi Weidner, 1976 – Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
Species Zorotypus longicercatus Caudell, 1927 – Jamaica
Species Zorotypus newi (Chao & Chen, 2000) – Taiwan
Species Zorotypus sechellensis Zompro, 2005 – Seychelles
Species Zorotypus swezeyi Caudell, 1922 – United States (Hawaii)
References
^Silvestri, F. (1913). "Descrizione di un nuovo ordine di insetti". Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici. 7: 193–209.