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Oligotoma
Oligotoma is a genus of webspinners, insects in the order Embiidina, also known as Embioptera. The type species is Oligotoma saundersii and the type locality the Indian subcontinent. The males have wings but the females are flightless. Embiids are recognisable by the enlarged front tarsi, which contain a large number of silk glands that they use to spin the threads they use for building the tubes and galleries in which they live.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Black Webspinner
speciesOligotoma nigra
Saunders' Webspinner
speciesOligotoma saundersii
Oligotoma humbertiana
speciesOligotoma humbertiana
Oligotoma annandalei
speciesOligotoma annandalei
Oligotoma josephii
speciesOligotoma josephii
Oligotoma greeniana
speciesOligotoma greeniana
Oligotoma dharwariana
speciesOligotoma dharwariana
Oligotoma burmana
speciesOligotoma burmana
Oligotoma pruthii
speciesOligotoma pruthii
Oligotoma asymmetrica
speciesOligotoma asymmetrica
Oligotoma minuta
speciesOligotoma minuta
Oligotoma falcis
speciesOligotoma falcis
Oligotoma ubicki
speciesOligotoma ubicki
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 362839.