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Oligotomidae Enderlein 1909

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Family Oligotomidae Enderlein 1909

Oligotomidae is one of the 13 extant families of Embioptera. It is distinguished from the other families by the combination of the following characteristics: male terminalia strongly asymmetrical; left basal cercus (LC1) not fused, elongate and slender; mandibles robust with prominent teeth; 10th tergite (10T) incompletely divided to 10LP and 10RP; MA vein not bifurcated (Ross 2007; Miller et al. 2012). The family is composed of six genera, Aposthonia Krauss 1911, Bulbosembia Ross 2007, Eosembia Ross 2007, Haploembia Verhoeff 1904, Lobosembia Ross 2007, and Oligotoma Westwood 1837.

Type genus: Oligotoma Westwood 1837

Distribution: Asia, Australasia, Mediterranean but some species have been introduced to other parts of the world (Ross 2007).

Remarks: Oligotomidae is one of the four families of webspinners found in Southeast Asia, the other three being Embonychidae Navas, Ptilocerembiidae Miller and Edgerly, and Teratembiidae Krauss (Ross 2007, Poolprasert 2014). So far, it is the only family recorded in the Philippines.

Notes

Published as part of Lucañas, Cristian C. & Lit, Ireneo L., 2018, Oligotomidae (Insecta: Embioptera) of Mt. Makiling, Los Baños, Philippines, with description of a new species, pp. 173-182 in Zootaxa 4415 (1) on page 175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/1241833

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0C333821FFDCFF9CFF4CFF5CFC4FF2B7

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.1.9 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1241833 (URL)
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Biodiversity

Family
Oligotomidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Embioptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Enderlein
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Oligotomidae Enderlein, 1909 sec. Lucañas & Lit, 2018

References

  • Ross, E. S. (2007) The Embiidina of Eastern Asia, Part 1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 58 (29), 575 - 600.
  • Miller, K. B., Hayashi, C., Whiting, M. F., Svenson, G. J. & Edgerly, J. S. (2012) The phylogeny and classification of Embioptera (Insecta). Systematic Entomology, 37, 550 - 570. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.2012.00628. x
  • Krauss, H. A. (1911) Monographie der Embien. Zoologica, Stuttgart, 23, 1 - 78.
  • Verhoeff, K. W. (1904) Zur vergleichenden Morphologie und Systematik der Embiiden. Nova Acta Leopoldinisch- Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher, 82, 145 - 205.
  • Westwood, J. O. (1837) Characters of Embia, a genus of insects allied to the white ant (termites), with a description of the species of which it is composed. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 17, 369 - 374. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1095 - 8339.1834. tb 00029. x
  • Poolprasert, P. (2014) Dactylembia, a new genus in the family Teratembiidae (Embioptera) from Thailand. Zootaxa, 3779 (4), 456 - 462.