Sinembiidae is an extinct family of webspinners in the order Embioptera. There are at least two genera and two described species in Sinembiidae.[1][2][3]

Sinembiidae
Temporal range: Callovian–Oxfordian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Embioptera
Suborder: Euembiodea
Family: Sinembiidae
Huang & Nel, 2009

Genera edit

These two genera belong to the family Sinembiidae:

Both were discovered in the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, and described in 2009. The female of Juraembia ningchengensis had wings, supporting Ross's proposal that both sexes of ancestral Embioptera were winged.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Sinembiidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. ^ Maehr, M.D.; Eades, D.C. (2019). "family Sinembiidae Huang & Nel, 2009". Embioptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  3. ^ Huang, Di-Ying; Nel, André (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. ISSN 0024-4082.