Oldest webspinners from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Insecta: Embiodea)
Author
Huang, Di-Ying
Author
Nel, André
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2009
2009-08-31
156
4
889
895
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00499.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00499.x
0024-4082
5444673
FAMILY
SINEMBIIDAE
FAM. NOV.
Type
genus:
Sinembia
gen. nov.
, other genus
Juraembia
gen. nov.
Diagnosis:
Female with ovipositor; cerci threesegmented, with (at least in the female) long setae; male genital appendages almost symmetrical; prognathous head; absence of ocelli; compound eyes in posterolateral position; thorax not very elongate; pronotum without visible prescutum; a median longitudinal furrow on prothoracic scutum; three-segmented tarsi; mid legs of normal size, not reduced; thickened hind femora; swollen fore basitarsus (visible in
Juraembia
gen. nov.
); absence of bladders on hind basitarsus; both male and female fully winged; presence of blood sinuses
ScBS
(in both
Sinembia
gen. nov.
and
Juraembia
gen. nov.
) and
CuBS
(but only preserved in
Sinembia
gen. nov.
);
MA
unforked.