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Embioptera

Insect Orders

Embioptera is an insect order commonly known as webspinners or footspinners, a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical species. More than 400 species in eleven families have been described, with long flexible bodies and short legs, and only males bear wings; the oldest known fossils of the order date to the mid-Jurassic.

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Living or Extinct
Yes 1
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Order 2
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ467392, descriptionView the Source
2. Embioptera - Wikipedia
Taxonomic rank (Wikipedia confirms the entity; rank from slug/structure-wave classification)View the Source
Wikidata: Embioptera
Wikidata Q467392, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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