{{Short description|Genus of insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Oligotoma P1090422a.jpg | image_caption = ''Oligotoma'' sp. | taxon = Oligotoma | authority = Westwood 1837<ref name=BugGuide>{{Cite web|url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/35627|title=Genus ''Oligotoma'' |website=bugguide.net |access-date=22 August 2017}}</ref> | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Oligotoma''''' is a genus of webspinners, insects in the order Embioptera, also known as Embiidina.<ref name=BugGuide/> The type species is ''Oligotoma saundersii'' and the type locality the Indian subcontinent.<ref name=SpeciesFile/> 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.<ref name=Poolprasert>{{cite journal |author=Poolprasert, Pisit |year=2012 |title=The Embiopteran Genus ''Oligotoma'' Westwood, 1837 (Embioptera: Oligotomidae), with Three New Recorded Species from Thailand |journal=Kasertsart Journal (Natural Science) |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=408–417 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250778575 }}</ref>
==Species== The Embioptera Species File lists the following species:-<ref name=SpeciesFile>{{cite web |url=http://embioptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1172224 |title=Genus ''Oligotoma'' Westwood 1837 |work=Embioptera Species File |accessdate=22 August 2017}}</ref>
{{Div col}} *''Oligotoma albertisi''<small> Navás, 1930</small> *''Oligotoma approximans''<small> Davis, 1938</small> *''Oligotoma aurea''<small> Ross, 1948</small> *''Oligotoma brunnea''<small> Ross, 1948</small> *''Oligotoma burmana''<small> Ross, 2007</small> *''Oligotoma davisi''<small> Ross, 1948</small> *''Oligotoma dharwariana''<small> Bradoo, 1971</small> *''Oligotoma falcis''<small> Ross, 1943</small> *''Oligotoma glauerti''<small> Tillyard, 1923</small> *''Oligotoma greeniana''<small> Enderlein, 1912</small> *''Oligotoma gurneyi''<small> Froggatt, 1904</small> *''Oligotoma hollandia''<small> Ross, 1948</small> *''Oligotoma humbertiana''<small> (Saussure, 1896)</small> *''Oligotoma inaequalis''<small> Banks, 1924</small> *''Oligotoma insularis''<small> McLachlan, 1877</small> *''Oligotoma josephii''<small> Bradoo, 1971</small> *''Oligotoma mandibulata''<small> Ross, 1948</small> *''Oligotoma maritima''<small> Ross, 1948</small> *''Oligotoma michaeli''<small> McLachlan, 1877</small> *''Oligotoma nigra''<small> Hagen, 1885</small> *''Oligotoma oculata''<small> Ross, 1948</small> *''Oligotoma saundersii''<small> (Westwood, 1837)</small> *''Oligotoma tillyardi''<small> Davis, 1936</small> *''Oligotoma ubicki''<small> Ross, 2007</small> {{Div col end}}
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Category:Oligotomidae Category:Insect genera Category:Taxa named by John O. Westwood