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Issue: Vol. 4 No. 5: September 2021
Type: Short Communication
Published: 2021-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.5.7
Page range: 433–435
Abstract views: 358
PDF downloaded: 19

A new genus of the family Alexarasniidae (Insecta: Embiida) from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan

Borissak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya str. 123, Moscow 117997, Russia
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
Insecta Embiida

Abstract

The Recent webspinners (Embiida = Embioptera) comprise a small order of insects; there are about 400 species distributed mainly in tropical and subtropical regions (Miller et al., 2012). They are gregarious, living subsocially in galleries of fine silk which they spin from glands on their forelegs (Edgerly et al., 2002). The webspinner lineage is traceable back via Middle Cretaceous Sorellembiidae, Jurassic Sinembiidae and Late Permian–Triassic Alexarasniidae to the Early–Middle Permian Atactophlebiidae (Engel & Grimaldi, 2006; Huang & Nel, 2009; Shcherbakov, 2015).

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