Oligotoma saundersii, commonly known as Saunders' embiid, is a species of webspinner, an insect in the order Embiidina, also known as Embioptera.

[2] Like other species of webspinner, O. saundersii is very inconspicuous, living as it does in a silken tube that it weaves which is hidden away in a crevice or under the bark of a tree, or other similar humid location.

[4] Researchers established a colony in the laboratory by placing two adult females and some eggs in a container with large flakes of bark behind which they could hide.

Silken tubes were woven by the females after they had settled down, but the insects remained largely hidden, emerging only at night to feed.

He produced his own longer tubes on the walls of the container, often remaining half out of the mouth of his gallery during the day, and sometimes venturing forth.