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Embioptera

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
ORDER
Published in
Lameere, A. (1900) In Manuel de la faune de Belgique. Insectes inferieurs. Corrodonts, Dermapteres, Orthopteres, Plecopteres, Agnathes, Odonates, Thysanopteres, Hemipteres, Planipennes, Panorpates, Trichopteres, Coleopteres. Lamertin, Bruxelles. Vol. 2, 858 pp.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Embioptera

Name

Synonyms
Embiodea
Homonyms
Embioptera
Common names
Webspinners in English
web-spinners in English
webspinners in English
webspinners in English
webspinners in English
webspinners in English
webspinners in English
spinnfotingar in Nynorsk, Norwegian
spinnfotinger in Norwegian Bokmål

Bibliographic References

  1. Brusca, Richard C., Gonzalo Giribet, and Wendy Moore, 2022: Chapter 22: Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Hexapoda: Insects and Their Kin. Invertebrates, Fourth Edition. 735-783.
  2. Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca, 2002: null. Invertebrates, Second Edition. xx + 936.
  3. Carpenter. 1992. In Kaesler [Ed.]. Part R Arthropoda 4. Volume 3: Superclass Hexapoda. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas, Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas 189-191
  4. Crampton. 1928. The grouping of the insect orders and their lines of descent. The Entomologist 61:84
  5. Davis. 1936. Studies in Australian Embioptera. Part I. Systematics. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.) 61:229-253, 7 figs.
  6. Davis. 1940. Family Classification of the Order Embioptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. ent. Soc. Amer.) 33(4):677-682
  7. Enderlein. 1909. Die Klassifikation der Embiidinen, nebst morphologischen und physiologischen Bemerkungen, besonders über das Spinnen derselben. Zoologischer Anzeiger (Zool. Anz.) 35:166-191
  8. Engel & Grimaldi. 2006. The earliest webspinners (Insecta, Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514:1-15
  9. Engel, Huang, Breitkreuz, Cai & Alvarado. 2016. Two new species of mid-Cretaceous webspinners in amber from northern Myanmar (Embiodea: Clothodidae, Oligotomidae). Cretaceous Research 58:118-124
  10. Grimaldi & Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects, Cambridge University Press, New York 146, 147, 196-199
  11. Klass. 2007. Die Stammesgeschichte der Hexapoden: eine kritische Diskussion neuerer Daten und Hypothesen [The phylogenetic history of hexapods: a critical discussion of recent data and hypotheses]. Denisia 20:413-450
  12. Klug & Klass. 2007. The potential value of the mid-abdominal musculature and nervous system in the reconstruction of interordinal relationships in lower Neoptera. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 65(1):73-100
  13. Krauss. 1911. Monographie der Embien. Zoologica 60:27
  14. Kusnezov. 1903. A new species of Embia Latr. from the Crimea (Neuroptera, Embiodea) *). Revue Russe d’Entomologie (Rev. Russe Ent.) 3(3-4):208
  15. Labandeira. 1994. A Compendium of Fossil Insect Families. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 88:23
  16. Lameere, A. (1900). In Manuel de la faune de Belgique. Insectes inferieurs. Corrodonts, Dermapteres, Orthopteres, Plecopteres, Agnathes, Odonates, Thysanopteres, Hemipteres, Planipennes, Panorpates, Trichopteres, Coleopteres. <em>Lamertin, Bruxelles.</em> Vol. 2, 858 pp.
  17. Lameere. 1900. Manuel de la faune de Belgique. Insectes inferieurs. Corrodonts, Dermapteres, Orthopteres, Plecopteres, Agnathes, Odonates, Thysanopteres, Hemipteres, Planipennes, Panorpates, Trichopteres, Coleopteres, Lamertin, Bruxelles 2:857
  18. Letsch, Meusemann, Wipfler, Schütte, Beutel & Misof. 2012. Insect phylogenomics: results, problems and the impact of matrix composition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:3282-3290
  19. McMillan, Hohu & Edgerly. 2016. Choreography of silk spinning by webspinners (Insecta: Embioptera) reflects lifestyle and hints at phylogeny. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(3):430-442
  20. Miller, Hayashi, Whiting, Svenson & Edgerly. 2012. The phylogeny and classification of Embioptera (Insecta). Systematic Entomology 37(3):550-570
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