Aposthonia Krauss 1911

Lucañas, Cristian C. & Lit, Ireneo L., 2018, Oligotomidae (Insecta: Embioptera) of Mt. Makiling, Los Baños, Philippines, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4415 (1), pp. 173-182 : 175

Genus Aposthonia Krauss 1911

Diagnosis. Resembles Oligotoma except for the absence of the mesad lobe of the LCB and the simple left paraproct process (LPPT). Differs from Eosembia by the presence of single papillae on the hind basitarsus, narrow LP and inconspicuous aedeagus.

Distribution. Tropical Asia.

Remarks. Aposthonia is one of the largest and widely distributed genera. It is probably a polyphyletic group, serving as a “catch-all” genus for Oligotomidae ( Ross 2007) . This is supported in cladistic analysis of Szumik (1996) and Miller et al. (2012). Ross (2007) reported that the Philippine diversity of webspinners was comprised mainly of Aposthonia , a genus common in the Indo-Australian region.