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Miscellaneous Insecta Species File
Genus

Oligotoma Westwood, 1837

Oligotoma Westwood, 1837: (Otu).
Oligotoma Westwood, 1837: (Otu).

Type

type species by original designation of Oligotoma Westwood, 1837

Nomenclature (18)

  • Embia (Oligotoma) Westwood, 1837: 373.

    type species by original designation Embia (Oligotoma) saundersii Westwood, 1837

  • Oligotoma Westwood, 1837 in Burmeister, 1839: 769.
  • Oligotoma Westwood, 1837 in Miller, 2009: 15.
  • Oligotoma Westwood, 1837 in Miller, Hayashi, Whiting, Svenson & Edgerly, 2012: 563.

Nomenclature references (18)

  • Westwood, J.O. (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. Zoology, 17, 369–374.
  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1839) Zweite Halfte. Neuroptera. In Handbuch der Entomologie. Reimer, Berlin. Vol. 2, 757–1050 pp. Available at http://openlibrary.org/b/OL17902539M/
  • Krauss, H.A. (1911) Monographie der Embien. Zoologica. Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 60, 1–78. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10230891
  • Tillyard, R.J. (1923) The Embioptera or web-spinners of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 9, 61–68.
  • Davis, C. (1936) Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part I. Systematics. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 61, 229–253, 7 figs.
  • Davis, C. (1938) Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part III: revision of the genus Metoligotoma, with descriptions of new species, and other notes on the family Oligotomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 63, 226–272.
  • Davis, C. (1939) Taxonomic notes on the order Embioptera. I. The genotype of Oligotoma Westwood. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 64, 181–190.
  • Davis, C. (1940) Taxonomic notes on the order Embioptera. XVIII. The genus Oligotoma Westwood. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 65, 362–387.
  • Ross, E.S. (1940) A Revision of the Embioptera of North America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 33(4), 629–676. Available at http://chla.library.cornell.edu/
  • Davis, C. (1942) Report of a collection of Embioptera from Trinidad and Guiana. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society, 11, 111–119.
  • Davis, C. (1944) Revision of the Embioptera of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 28, 139–148.
  • Ross, E.S. (1944) A revision of the Embioptera, or webspinners, of the New World. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 94, 401–504. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31778
  • Kapur & Kripalani (1957) Studies in Indian Embioptera. Part I-The Oligotomidae of India. Transactions of the Royal Enteomological Society of London, 109(3), 111–134. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.1957.109.issue-3/issuetoc
  • Ross, E.S. (1966) The Embioptera of Europe and the Mediterranean region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology Series, 17(7), 273–326. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis17entoond
  • Ross, E.S. (2006) The insect order Embiidina of northeastern Africa and the Red Sea region. Fauna of Arabia, 22, 287–343.
  • Ross, E.S. (2007) The Embiidina of eastern Asia, part I. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 58(29), 575–600. Available at http://research.calacademy.org/scipubs/pubs/854
  • Miller, K.B. (2009) Genus- and family-group names in the order Embioptera (Insecta). Zootaxa, 2055, 1–34.
  • Miller, K.B., Hayashi, C.Y., Whiting, M.F., Svenson, G.J. & Edgerly, J.S. (2012) The phylogeny and classification of Embioptera (Insecta). Systematic Entomology, 37(3), 550–570. Available at http://www.kellymillerlab.com/pdf/60_EmbiopteraPhylogeny.pdf

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Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species1301225