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Species Haploembia solieri

At first .. I thought it was Earwig young - Haploembia solieri

Haploembia from California - Haploembia solieri

Webspinner - Haploembia solieri - female

Haploembia solieri in Texas - Haploembia solieri

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Embiidina (Webspinners)

Family Oligotomidae

Genus Haploembia

Species solieri (Haploembia solieri)

Explanation of Names

Haploembia solieri (Rambur 1842)

=tarsalis (Ross 1940)

Identification

relatively easily identified by the lobster-like maculations on the body and those on the head that sometimes resemble flames [S.D. Rider's comment]

exposed silken gallery (photo by Alex Wild)

Range

native to the Mediterranean, adventive elsewhere; in our area, w./sw. US (TX-CA-UT-OR)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Ross E.S. () World list of extant and fossil Embiidina (=Embioptera)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 7 June, 2009 - 7:20pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 19 December, 2011 - 7:36pm

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