Oligotomidae

Oligotomidae
Haploembia solieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Embioptera
Family:	Oligotomidae

Oligotomidae is a family of webspinners in the order Embioptera. There are about 6 genera and at least 40 described species in Oligotomidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Haploembia solieri

They are known to be found in warmer regions of the Old World and in the Southwestern United States. ^[5]

Genera

These six genera belong to the family Oligotomidae: ^{[2] [3] [4]}

• Aposthonia Krauss, 1911
  • Aposthonia ceylonica , native to South-East Asia, found to be present in the UK in 2019. ^[6]
• Bulbosembia Ross, 2007
• Eosembia Ross, 2007
• Haploembia Verhoeff, 1904
• Lobosembia Ross, 2007
• Oligotoma Westwood, 1837
• † Litoclostes Engel & Huang, 2016

References

1. "Oligotomidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
2. "Oligotomidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
3. "Oligotomidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
4. "Browse Oligotomidae". Catalogue of Life. Archived from the original on 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
5. Eric Tentarelli (2012). A Guide to Insects. Blackwell. p. 263.
6. Briggs, Helen (27 February 2019). "Webspinners: New order of insects sets up home in UK". BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 2 March 2019.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN   0-8493-0212-9.
• Borror, Donald J.; Peterson, Roger Tory; White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to Insects . Houghton Mifflin. ISBN   978-0395911709.
• Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology . Plenum Press. ISBN   0-306-40366-8.
• Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
• Maehr, M.D.; Eades, D.C. (2013). "Embioptera Species File Online, Version 5.0" . Retrieved 2018-03-05.
• Majka, C. (2009). "Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island". ZooKeys (22): 267–283. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.22.93 .
• Misof, B.; Liu, S.; Meusemann, K.; Peters, R.S.; et al. (2014). "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 346 (6210): 763–767. doi:10.1126/science.1257570. PMID   25378627. S2CID   36008925.
• Ross, Edward S. (1984). "A synopsis of the Embiidina of the United States". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 86 (1): 82–93. ISBN   90-5782-035-8.
• Ross, Edward S. (1970). "Biosystematics of the Embioptera". Annual Review of Entomology. 15 (1): 157–172. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.15.010170.001105.
• Ross, Edward S. (1944). "A revision of the Embioptera, or web-spinners, of the New World". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 94 (3175): 401–504, 151 figs., 2 pls. doi: 10.5479/si.00963801.94-3175.401 .
• Szumik, Claudia A. (1996). "The higher classification of the order Embioptera: a cladistic analysis". Cladistics. 12 (1): 41–64. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1996.tb00192.x .

External links

• Media related to Oligotomidae at Wikimedia Commons