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Oligembia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1031038	https://www.gbif.org/species/1031038
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	220252	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=220252

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Embioptera : Teratembiidae : Oligembia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
-	Eukinolabia	Terry and Whiting 2005
order	Embioptera	Lameere 1900
family	Teratembiidae	Krauss 1911
genus	Oligembia	Davis 1939

Scientific Name

Oligembia Davis, 1939

Name Published In

Davis. 1939. Taxonomic notes on the order Embioptera. II. A new neotropical genus of Embioptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.) 64:217-222

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Oligembia	genus	belongs to Teratembiidae	stated with evidence	Szumik, 1994

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Type Specimen

Oligotoma hubbardi Hagen, 1885

Designated By

Davis. 1939. Taxonomic notes on the order Embioptera. II. A new neotropical genus of Embioptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.) 64:142

Type Information Source

Embioptera Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. A. Szumik. 1994. Oligembia vetusta, a new fossil teratembiid (Embioptera) from Dominican amber. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102(1):67-73

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Oligembia arbol species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia armata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia bicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia brevicauda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia buscki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia capensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia capote species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia convergens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia cristobalensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia darlingtoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia gigantea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia hubbardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia intricata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia limon species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia mandibulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia melanura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia mini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia nigrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia oligotomoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia peruviana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia plaumanni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia quadriceps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia rossi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia scalpta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia unicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia versicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligembia vetusta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Obligembia Ross, 1944	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Embioptera : Teratembiidae : *Obligembia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1939	Oligembia Davis
1994	Oligembia Szumik
2009	Oligembia Miller p. 16
2011	Oligembia Engel and Grimaldi p. 199

References

Szumik C. A. (1994) Oligembia vetusta, a new fossil teratembiid (Embioptera) from Dominican amber, Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102 1, 67-73

Miller K. B. (2009) Genus- and family-group names in the order Embioptera (Insecta), Zootaxa 2055, 1-34

Engel M. S., Grimaldi D. A. (2011) Systematic paleontology, in Webspinners in early Eocene amber from western India (Insecta: Embiodea), ZooKeys 148, 197-208

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006/ITIS - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 64 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Davis. 1942. Report of a collection of Embioptera from Trinidad and Guiana. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society (Proc. Roy. Entom. Soc. Lond.) 11:117 - via Embioptera Species File

Szumik. 2001. New South American Embioptera. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 60(1-4):257-272 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 1944. A revision of the Embioptera, or webspinners, of the New World. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 94(3175):459 - via Embioptera Species File

Davis. 1939. Taxonomic notes on the order Embioptera. II. A new neotropical genus of Embioptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.) 64:217 - via Embioptera Species File

Miller, Hayashi, Whiting, Svenson & Edgerly. 2012. The phylogeny and classification of Embioptera (Insecta). Systematic Entomology 37(3):563 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 1940. A Revision of the Embioptera of North America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. ent. Soc. Amer.) 33(4):636 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross, Edward S., 1984: A synopsis of the Embiidina of the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington vol. 86, no. 1. 82-93. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Miller. 2009. Genus- and family-group names in the order Embioptera (Insecta). Zootaxa 2055:16 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 1992. In Quintero & Aiello [Ed.]. Webspinners of Panama (Embiidina). Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: selected studies, Oxford University Press, Oxford 133 - via Embioptera Species File

Szumik. 1994. Oligembia vetusta, a new fossil teratembiid (Embioptera) from Dominican amber. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102(1):67-73 - via Embioptera Species File

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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