Embioptera

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo: Embioptera
Subordines: Clothododea – Euembiodea – Neoembiodea – †Palembiodea
Familia incertae sedis: †Sorellembiidae

Overview of familiae (fossil)

†Alexarasniidae – †Brachyphyllophagidae – ?†Gallophasmatidae – †Rasnalexiidae – ?†Sinembiidae – †Sorellembiidae

Name

Embioptera Lameere, 1900

Synonymy

Embioptères Lameere, 1900: 857
Embides
Embidina
Embiida
Embiodea
Embiidina

References

Primary references

Lameere, A.A. 1900. Manuel de la faune de Belgique. Tome II, Insects inférieurs. Bruxelles, H. Lamertin, 857 pp. BHL.

Additional references

Engel, M.S., Grimaldi, D.A., Singh, H. & Nascimbene, P.C. 2011. Webspinners in Early Eocene amber from western India (Insecta, Embiodea). ZooKeys 148: 197–208. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.148.1712 . Reference page.
Gorochov, A.V. 2021. [New Family, Genus and Species of the Primitive Embioptera from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and Remarks on the Classification of this Order]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 100(3): 663–673. (in Russian). [English translation: Entomological Review 101(6): 837–845. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873821060087 .] Reference page.
Huang, D.-Y. & Nel, A. 2009. Oldest webspinners from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Insecta: Embiodea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156(4): 889–895. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00499.x . Reference page.
Miller, K.B. 2009. Genus- and family-group names in the order Embioptera (Insecta). Zootaxa 2055: 1–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2055.1.1 . Reference page.
Szumik, C., Gandolfo, R. & Pereyra, V. 2017. Gibocercus Szumik and Biguembia Szumik (Embioptera, Archembiidae): new species and the potentiality of female traits. Zootaxa 4317(2): 338–354. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.9. Reference page.

Links

Embioptera Species File
Edward S. Ross. World List of Extant and Fossil Embiidina (= Embioptera). California Academy of Sciences[1]

Vernacular names

Alemannisch: Färsespinnobele
беларуская: Эмбіі
Deutsch: Tarsenspinnen
English: Webspinner
eesti: Mõnsskäpalised
suomi: Kehruujalkaiset
Nordfriisk: Wääbspanern
magyar: Szövőlábúak, embiák
日本語: シロアリモドキ目 (紡脚目)
한국어: 흰개미붙이목 (방각목, 방족목)
中文: 紡足目

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