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Oligotoma westwoodi

Insecta - Embioptera - Oligotomidae

Taxonomy
Oligotoma westwoodi was named by Hagen (1885). Its type specimen is MCZ PALE-31650, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Zanzibar Copal (Drogues House Gehe collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Oligotoma westwoodi Hagen p. 171

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Eukinolabia
orderEmbiopteraLameere 1900
suborderNeoembiodea
infraorderOligotomorpha
familyOligotomidae
genusOligotomaWestwood 1837
specieswestwoodi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Oligotoma westwoodi Hagen 1885
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania Oligotoma westwoodi (type locality: 174113)