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Genus Oligotoma

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Webspinner - Oligotoma Snakefly - Oligotoma nigra Oligotoma - Oligotoma nigra unknown - Oligotoma Male Webspinner - Oligotoma nigra - male 1124C01 - Oligotoma 1124C01 - Oligotoma Alate termite with long antennae? - Oligotoma nigra

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Embioptera (Webspinners)
Family Oligotomidae
Genus Oligotoma

Explanation of Names

Oligotoma Westwood 1837
Greek oligos 'few' + tomos 'section' (refers to a small number of segments --unclear of what part)

Numbers

2 spp. in our area (both adventive), 24 spp. total(1)

Range

warmer regions of the Old World; in our area, O. nigra sw. US (TX-CA-UT), O. saundersii FL-TX(1)

Print References

Westwood. 1837. Characters of Embia, a genus of insects allied to the white ants (Termites); with descriptions of the species of which it is composed. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.) 17:369-374.

Works Cited

1.Ross E.S. () World list of extant and fossil Embiidina (=Embioptera)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 27 October, 2005 - 10:51pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 November, 2020 - 2:28pm

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