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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Webspinners (Embiidina) » Oligotomidae » Haploembia » Haploembia solieri
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Mystery (to me, anyway) Embiopterans - Haploembia solieri
Copyright © 2008 Daniel Neal

Mystery (to me, anyway) Embiopterans - Haploembia solieri
Sacramento (Natomas Oaks Park), Sacramento County, California, USA
March 8, 2008
Size: ~ 5mm

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Mystery (to me, anyway) Embiopterans - Haploembia solieri Mystery (to me, anyway) Embiopterans - Haploembia solieri
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Contributed by Daniel Neal on 30 April, 2008 - 12:43pm
Last updated 7 August, 2013 - 4:52pm

Moved
Moved from Webspinners.
… john and jane balaban, 7 June, 2009 - 9:34pm login or register to post comments

 
The head shape looks female to me...
...Though this is just a guess on my part, perhaps someone could confirm.
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 5 November, 2010 - 10:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Pretty good odds you're right
Although most populations in Europe have both males and females, all the Californians are apparently descended from parthenogenic populations: no one has ever found a male here.
… Chuck Entz, 6 March, 2011 - 10:31pm login or register to post comments

Pink Webspinners?
I'm fairly sure that these are Pink Webspinners (Order Embioptera; Family Oligotomidae; Species Haploembia solieri (?)).

See Powell & Hogue, California Insects, 1979 ed., p 79.
… Daniel Neal, 15 May, 2008 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Haploembia solieri
You guessed it, these are Haploembia solieri
… Stanley Dean Rider, Jr., 7 June, 2009 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

Web-spinners!
As you know these are Embiopterans.
I've never seen these buggers before 'cept in books!

Note the swollen tibia (or is it the tarsomere?). These house glands that secret a silk-like substance.
...I'm probably preaching to the quire here. XD
Sorry. :)
… Jonas Insinga, 30 April, 2008 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

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