Oligotoma

Oligotoma is a genus of webspinners, insects in the order Embiidina, also known as Embioptera.[1] The type species is Oligotoma saundersii and the type locality the Indian subcontinent.[2] The males have wings but the females are flightless. Embiids are recognisable by the enlarged front tarsi, which contain a large number of silk glands that they use to spin the threads they use for building the tubes and galleries in which they live.[3]

Oligotoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Embiidina
Family:
Oligotomidae
Genus:
Oligotoma

Westwood 1837[1]
Species

See text

Species

The Embioptera Species File lists the following species:-[2]

  • Oligotoma albertisi Navás, 1930
  • Oligotoma approximans Davis, 1938
  • Oligotoma aurea Ross, 1948
  • Oligotoma brunnea Ross, 1948
  • Oligotoma burmana Ross, 2007
  • Oligotoma davisi Ross, 1948
  • Oligotoma dharwariana Bradoo, 1971
  • Oligotoma falcis Ross, 1943
  • Oligotoma glauerti Tillyard, 1923
  • Oligotoma greeniana Enderlein, 1912
  • Oligotoma gurneyi Froggatt, 1904
  • Oligotoma hollandia Ross, 1948
  • Oligotoma humbertiana (Saussure, 1896)
  • Oligotoma inaequalis Banks, 1924
  • Oligotoma insularis McLachlan, 1877
  • Oligotoma josephii Bradoo, 1971
  • Oligotoma mandibulata Ross, 1948
  • Oligotoma maritima Ross, 1948
  • Oligotoma michaeli McLachlan, 1877
  • Oligotoma nigra Hagen, 1885
  • Oligotoma oculata Ross, 1948
  • Oligotoma saundersii (Westwood, 1837)
  • Oligotoma tillyardi Davis, 1936
  • Oligotoma ubicki Ross, 2007

References
  1. "Genus Oligotoma". bugguide.net. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  2. "Genus Oligotoma Westwood 1837". Embioptera Species File. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  3. Poolprasert, Pisit (2012). "The Embiopteran Genus Oligotoma Westwood, 1837 (Embioptera: Oligotomidae), with Three New Recorded Species from Thailand". Kasertsart Journal (Natural Science). 46 (3): 408–417.
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