Photograph courtesy of Hamish Robertson, South African Museum

The Webspinners (Embiidina [= Embioptera]) of South Africa

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Contents

Introduction
Resources
The Families

Introduction

The Embiidina of South Africa are currently classified into three families. The list of species is compiled from Ross (1974), and his identifiers for undescribed genera are used to avoid confusion.

Resources

Information about the webspinners and their phylogenetic position can be obtained from

BIOSIS Internet Resource Guide - Embiidina
Gordon Ramel's Webspinner PAge
The Embiidina page of the Tree of Life
Edward Ross and Norman Penny keep The Checklist of Embiidina of the World

Order: EMBIIDINA

Embiidae
Teratembiidae
Oligotomidae


This part of A Catalogue of South African Insects revised: