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Embioptera

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

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Embioptera

Name

Synonyms
Embiodea
Homonyms
Embioptera
Common names
web-spinners in English
webspinners in English
webspinners in English
webspinners in English
webspinners in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca, 2002: null. Invertebrates, Second Edition. xx + 936.
  2. 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
  3. Crampton. 1928. The grouping of the insect orders and their lines of descent. The Entomologist 61:84
  4. 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.
  5. Davis. 1940. Family Classification of the Order Embioptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. ent. Soc. Amer.) 33(4):677-682
  6. Enderlein. 1909. Die Klassifikation der Embiidinen, nebst morphologischen und physiologischen Bemerkungen, besonders über das Spinnen derselben. Zoologischer Anzeiger (Zool. Anz.) 35:166-191
  7. Engel & Grimaldi. 2006. The earliest webspinners (Insecta, Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514:1-15
  8. 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
  9. Grimaldi & Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects, Cambridge University Press, New York 146, 147, 196-199
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Krauss. 1911. Monographie der Embien. Zoologica 60:27
  13. Kusnezov. 1903. A new species of Embia Latr. from the Crimea (Neuroptera, Embiodea) *). Revue Russe d’Entomologie (Rev. Russe Ent.) 3(3-4):208
  14. Labandeira. 1994. A Compendium of Fossil Insect Families. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 88:23
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Miller, Hayashi, Whiting, Svenson & Edgerly. 2012. The phylogeny and classification of Embioptera (Insecta). Systematic Entomology 37(3):550-570
  19. Miller. 2009. Genus- and family-group names in the order Embioptera (Insecta). Zootaxa 2055:1-34
  20. Proaño, Cruz, McMillan & Edgerly. 2012. Exploration of Substrate Vibrations as Communication Signals in a Webspinner from Ecuador (Embioptera: Clothodidae). Neotropical Entomology 41(3):196-203
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