Oliver Zompro
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Who is Oliver Zompro?
Oliver Zompro is a German biologist who is credited with the discovery in 2002 of a new suborder of carnivorous African insects, Mantophasmatodea or "gladiators", which was originally considered to be a new insect order but was later relegated to subordinal status.
Zompro initially described gladiators from old museum specimens that originally were found in Namibia and Tanzania, and from a 45-million-year-old specimen of Baltic amber.
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.
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