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Embiidina

Web spinners

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 Oligotoma nigra, black webspinner
taxon links [up-->]Embiidae [up-->]Teratembiidae [up-->]Anisembiidae [up-->]Clothodidae extinct icon extinct icon extinct icon Not MonophyleticNot MonophyleticNot MonophyleticPhylogenetic position of group is uncertainPhylogenetic position of group is uncertainPhylogenetic position of group is uncertainPhylogenetic position of group is uncertainPhylogenetic position of group is uncertainPhylogenetic position of group is uncertain[down<--]Neoptera Interpreting the tree
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Relationships after Szumik (1996, 1997).
Containing group: Neoptera

Introduction

Oligocene to Recent, with controversial records from the Lower Permian.

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Characteristics

In addition, web spinners exhibit brood care.

Other Names for Embiidina

References

Davis, C. 1939. Taxonomic notes of the Order Embioptera. Part III: The genus Burmitembia Cockerell. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64:369-373.

Davis, C. 1940. Family classification of the Order Embioptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 33:677-682.

Davis, C. 1940. Taxonomic notes of the Order Embioptera. Part XX: The distribution and comparative morphology of the Order Embioptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65:533-542.

Edgerly, J. S. 1997. Life beneath silk walls: A review of the primitively social Embiidina. Pages 14-25 in The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids. J. Choe and B. Crespi, eds. Cambridge University Press.

Edgerly, J. S., J. A. Davilla, and N. Schoenfeld. 2002. Silk spinning behavior and domicile construction in webspinners. Journal of Insect Behavior 15(2):219-242.

Edgerly, J. S., C. A. Szumik, and C. N. McCreedy. 2007. On new characters of the eggs of Embioptera with the description of a new species of Saussurembia (Anisembiidae). Systematic Entomology 32:387–395.

Ross, E. S. 1940. A revision of the Embioptera of North America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 33:629-676.

Ross, E. S. 1944. A revision of the Embioptera, or web-spinners, of the New World. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 94:401-504.

Ross, E. S. 1957. The Embioptera of California. Bull. Calif. Insect Sur. 6:51-57.

Ross, E. S. 1970. Biosystematics of the Embioptera. Annual Review of Entomology 15:157-172.

Ross, E. S. 1984. A synopsis of the Embiidina of the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86:82-93.

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

Ross, E. S. 1992. Webspinners of Panama (Embiidina). Pages 122-141 in Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies. D. Quintero and A. Aiello, eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York & Tokyo.

Ross, E. S. 2000. Embia: Contributions to the biosystematics of the insect order Embiidina. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 149:1-53.

Szumik, C. A. 1996. The higher classification of the order Embioptera: A cladistic analysis. Cladistics 12:41-64.

Szumik, C. A. 1997. Two new neotropical genera of Embiidae (Embioptera, Insecta). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 105(3-4):140-153.

Szumik, C. A. 2001. Nuevos Embiopteros de America del Sur. [New South American Embioptera.] Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 60(1-4):257-272.

Szumik, C. A. 2004. Phylogenetic systematics of Archembiidae (Embiidina, Insecta). Systematic Entomology 29(2):215-237.

Valentine, B. D. 1986. Grooming behavior in Embioptera and Zoraptera (Insecta). Ohio Journal Of Science 86(4): 150-152.

Information on the Internet

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Scientific Name Haploembia solieri
Location Lake Co., California, U.S.A.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Life Cycle Stage Adult
Copyright © 2005 Alex Wild
Oligotoma nigra, black webspinner
Scientific Name Oligotoma nigra
Location Tucson, AZ, USA
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By Alex Wild
Sex Male
Life Cycle Stage Adult
Copyright © 2007 Alex Wild
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