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Oligotomidae

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Description

Oligotomidae is a family of webspinners in the order Embioptera. There are about 6 genera and at least 40 described species in Oligotomidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligotomidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4768	https://www.gbif.org/species/4768
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	330753	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=330753

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Embioptera : Oligotomidae

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
suborder	Neoembiodea	Engel and Grimaldi 2006
infraorder	Oligotomorpha	Ross 2007
family	Oligotomidae	Enderlein 1910

Scientific Name

Oligotomidae

Name Published In

Enderlein. 1909. Die Klassifikation der Embiidinen, nebst morphologischen und physiologischen Bemerkungen, besonders über das Spinnen derselben. Zoologischer Anzeiger (Zool. Anz.) 35:166-191

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Oligotomidae	family	belongs to Oligotomorpha	stated with evidence	Engel and Huang, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (40%)

First Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Enderlein. 1910. Die Klassifikation der Embiidinen, nebst morphologischen und physiologischen Bemerkungen, besonders über das Spinnen derselben. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35:166-191

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligotomidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aposthonia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bulbosembia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eosembia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Haploembia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Litoclostes ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lobosembia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oligotoma genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1910	Oligotomidae Enderlein p. 175
2016	Oligotomidae Engel and Huang p. 122

References

Enderlein G. (1910) Die Klassifikation der Embiidinen, nebst morphologischen und physiologischen Bemerkungen, besonders über das Spinnen derselben, Zoologischer Anzeiger 35, 166-191

Engel M. S., Huang D. Y. (2016) Systematic palaeontology, in Two new species of mid-Cretaceous webspinners in amber from northern Myanmar (Embiodea: Clothodidae, Oligotomidae), Cretaceous Research 58, 118-124

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)

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Krauss. 1911. Monographie der Embien. Zoologica 60:34 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 1966. The Embioptera of Europe and the Mediterranean region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology Series (Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.)) 17(7):313 - via Embioptera Species File

Davis. 1944. Revision of the Embioptera of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia (Jour. Roy. Soc. West. Austral.) 28:141 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 1970. Biosystematics of the Embioptera. Annual Review of Entomology 15:170 - via Embioptera Species File

Davis. 1936. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part I. Systematics. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.) 61:230 - via Embioptera Species File

Davis. 1940. Family Classification of the Order Embioptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. ent. Soc. Amer.) 33(4):679 - via Embioptera Species File

Davis. 1942. Report of a collection of Embioptera from Trinidad and Guiana. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society (Proc. Roy. Entom. Soc. Lond.) 11:118 - via Embioptera Species File

Engel & Grimaldi. 2006. The earliest webspinners (Insecta, Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514:6 - 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

Miller. 2009. Genus- and family-group names in the order Embioptera (Insecta). Zootaxa 2055:15 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 1984. A Classification of the Embiidina of Mexico with Descriptions of New Taxa. Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences (Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci.) 140:48 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 2006. The insect order Embiidina of northeastern Africa and the Red Sea region. Fauna of Arabia 22:338 - via Embioptera Species File

Enderlein. 1909. Die Klassifikation der Embiidinen, nebst morphologischen und physiologischen Bemerkungen, besonders über das Spinnen derselben. Zoologischer Anzeiger (Zool. Anz.) 35:175 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 1963. The families of Australian Embioptera, with descriptions of a new family, genus and species. Wasmann Journal of Biology (Wasmann J. Biol.) 21:135 - via Embioptera Species File

Ross. 2007. The Embiidina of eastern Asia, part I. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.) 58(29):575-600 - via Embioptera Species File

Tillyard. 1923. The Embioptera or web-spinners of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia (Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. West. Austral.) 9:61-68 - via Embioptera Species File

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