Oligotomidae (Insecta: Embioptera) of Mt. Makiling, Los Baños, Philippines, with description of a new species
Author
Lucañas, Cristian C.
Author
Lit, Ireneo L.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-27
4415
1
173
182
journal article
30158
10.11646/zootaxa.4415.1.9
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1175-5326
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Genus
Oligotoma
Westwood 1837
Diagnosis.
Distinguished from other
Oligotomidae
by the left basipodite (LCB) projecting mesad as a lobe.
Distribution.
Cosmopolitan (
Ross 1955
)
Remarks.
Oligotoma
, together with
Aposthonia
, is one of the largest genera of
Embioptera
and several of its species are relatively common because of their rapid (anthropogenic) dispersal (
Ross 2007
).