Species Oligotoma nigra Hagen, 1885

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• Oligotoma nigra Hagen, H. 1885. Monograph of the Embidina. The Canadian Entomologist 17: 141-155, 171-178, 190-199, 206-229 [174].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCZ ♂, Island of Rhoda, Cairo, Egypt.
  Paralectotype(s) MCZ 3♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [363].
• Embia californica Banks, N. 1906. Descriptions of new Nearctic neuropteroid insects. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32: 1-50 3 pls [1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCZ nymph, near Los Angeles, California, USA.
  Paralectotype(s) MCZ 2 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [364]; Cassis, G. 1998. Embioptera. pp. 377-392 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp. [390] (interprets the inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Oligotoma mesopotamica Esben-Petersen, P. 1929. Embioptera from Baghdad. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 65(169): 7-9 [8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 20 specimens, Baghdad, Iraq.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [364]
• Ross, E.S. 1944. A revision of the Embioptera of the New World. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 94(3175): 401-504 2 pls [495]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Brisbane, Townsville, cosmopolitan, accidentally introduced into Nearctic Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Nearctic Region

Palaearctic Region

• Egypt
• Iraq
• Israel

Ecological Descriptors

Nocturnal.

Extra Ecological Information

Synanthropic, associated with date palms in North America.

 

General References

Carlton, C.E. & Bassi, D.G. 1988. Oligotoma nigra (Hagen) (Embiidina: Oligotomidae), an introduced species new to Arkansas. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 61: 352-353 (North America)

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 [385] (key)

Esben-Petersen, P. 1929. Embioptera from Baghdad. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 65(179): 258 (Oligotoma mesopotamica as separate species)

Morton, K. 1929. Embioptera from Baghdad. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 3 15(170): 45 (possible synonymy of Oligotoma mesopotamica)

Ross, E.S. 1963. The families of Australian Embioptera, with descriptions of a new family, genus and species. Wasmann Journal of Biology 21: 121-136 [135] (Australia)

Ross, E.S. 1984. A classification of the Embiidina of Mexico. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 1984 140: 1-50

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)