taxonID	type	description	language	source
B11287C0FF97FF98FC94ED29FBE4220B.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE SPECIES: Sorellembia estherae, new species.	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF98FC94ED29FBE4220B.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: As for the family (vide supra).	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF98FC94ED29FBE4220B.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY: The new genus-group name is a combination of sorelle (Greek nickname for ‘‘ old man’ ’) and Embia (Gr., embios, meaning ‘‘ lively’ ’), the stem generic name in the order. The name’s gender is feminine.	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF94FCACEC0AFEAF2506.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: As for the genus (vide supra).	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF94FCACEC0AFEAF2506.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION: The same characters as provided for diagnosing the family with the following additions: Male (alate). Total body length (excluding antennae) approximately 4.6 mm; forewing length approximately 3.5 mm. Integument dark brown, apparently smooth (microsculpturing not evident). Head longer than wide; compound eyes prominent, TABLE 2 Comparison of Three Classifications moderate-sized; set anteriorly on head near antennal sockets; portion of head behind posterior tangent of compound eyes approximately 1.5 times length of compound eyes; posterior border rounded. Mandibles large, prominent, apically dentate; incisor with at least two teeth. Forewing with membrane hyaline; Sc disappearing rapidly in basal third of wing, weakly arched posteriorly; R terminating into C well before wing apex; 1 r-rs + ma crossvein and three r-rs crossveins (fig. 2); single evanescent (i. e., faint to nearly obsolete medially) rs-ma crossvein present, positioned at midpoint between distalmost r-rs crossveins (i. e., at midpoint between 2 r-rs and 3 r-rs), meeting MA at distal quarter of abscissa of M between MA origin and MA bifurcation; MA separating from Rs near wing midpoint, shortly after 1 r-rs + ma crossvein; single evanescent ma-mp crossvein present before midpoint of MA origin and MA bifurcation; MA bifurcating prior to point at which R terminates; short mp-cua crossvein present shortly after separation of Rs + MA from MP; MP simple; more posterior portions of forewing obscured. Male terminalia as depicted in figure 2 and as described for the family. Female. Unknown. 2005) whose passing on May 18 marked the close of a special life; though short in stature she was powerful in spirit. Lucan (nephew of the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger) wrote, ‘‘ The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. ’’ Having joyfully endured these many years on Earth, may she now know a more complete and eternal happiness.	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF94FCACEC0AFEAF2506.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL: Holotype. Male alate, AMNH Bu- 227, Myanmar (Burma): Cretaceous, Kachin, Tanai Village (on Ledo Road 105 km NW Myitkyna). Deposited in the Amber Collection, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York. This is the material discussed and figured as an undescribed Cretaceous amber embiodean by Grimaldi et al. (2002: their fig. 22 a) and Grimaldi and Engel (2005: their fig. 7.13).	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF94FCACEC0AFEAF2506.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a matronymic honoring Mrs. Esther Pratt (1911 – FAMILY NOTOLIGOTOMIDAE DAVIS	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF94FCACEC0AFEAF2506.taxon	discussion	COMMENTS: The family is used herein in a slightly expanded sense than as employed by many recent authors. Instead, our usage of the family is closer to that of Davis (1940 a, 1940 b). We have considered the family Australembiidae as a subfamily of Notoligotomidae as both of these small, Australian families (Notoligotominae may also contain some undescribed Southeast Asian species) share the distinctive combination of a greatly reduced right cercus and have the two sections of the left cercus fused. The fusion of the left cercal sections is incomplete, with the two sections still distinguishable, in the basal subfamily Notoligotominae, while these sections are indistinguishably fused in Burmitembiinae and Australembiinae. Males of Notoligotominae and Burmitembiinae primitively retain wings, while australembiines are completely apterous. Burmitembia is an intermediary between Australembiinae and typical Notoligotominae. As more phylogenetic work on the Embiodea is conducted itmay be warranted to recognize Burmitembiinae as a tribe of an expanded Australembiinae, thereby more completely reflecting hierarchical relationships of Notoligotomidae in the classification. Burmitembiinae, new subfamily	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF94FCACEC0AFEAF2506.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE GENUS: Burmitembia Cockerell, 1919.	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF97FF94FCACEC0AFEAF2506.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: Males fully winged, of small size (approximately 4.5 mm in total length). Forewing with Sc terminating in basal third of wing; R terminating into C well before wing apex; crossveins relatively sparse but more numerous than many living species; three rsma crossveins, distalmost crossvein (i. e., 3 rsma) evanescent (i. e., vanishing medially) and positioned before distalmost r-rs crossvein; MA simple; at least four ma-mp crossveins present, all apparently evanescent; MP, CuA, CuP, and A simple; wing membrane hyaline. Metabasitarsus with two ventral plantulae (one medial, one apical); metatarsomere II with single ventral plantula. Right cercus with basal section enlarged, distal section vestigial; left cercal sections indistinguishably fused (as in Australembiinae).	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF9BFF94FF70EBE2FCCA2488.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: As for the subfamily (vide supra, and Davis, 1939 a). Ross and York (2000) provide a photograph of the holotype of B. venosa (their fig. 4). Embiodea sp. indet.	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF9BFF94FF70EBE2FCCA2488.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL: Fragments of a male alate (presumed to be a male owing to wing fragment, but sex is otherwise indeterminable). AMNH Bu- 200, Myanmar (Burma): Cretaceous, Kachin, Tanai Village (on Ledo Road 105 km NW Myitkyna). These fragments were briefly mentioned by Grimaldi et al. (2002).	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
B11287C0FF9BFF94FF70EBE2FCCA2488.taxon	discussion	COMMENTS: A small piece of Burmese amber containing fragments of an embiodean as evidenced by the distinctive probasitarsus. The foreleg is preserved from the profemur to the pretarsus. The profemur and protibia are typical in construction for most Embiodea; the probasitarus is greatly enlarged, being slightly longer than the protibia and similar in length to the profemur and about 2.5 times wider than protarsomere II; protarsomere II is the shortest and about as long as wide, with protarsomere III arising from its surface, protarsomere III slender and elongate, about 1.75 times as long as protarsomere II; the pretarsal claws are short and simple. In addition, the apical portion of a forewing is preserved with the foreleg fragment. The evident venation is nearly identical to that of the apical portion of the forewing of B. venosa (e. g., MA is simple, well separated from MP; Rs and MA connected prior to termination of R by evanescent rs-ma crossvein: the only apparent differences are that the apical r-rs crossvein is shorted and more bowed in Bu- 200 and that the rs-ma crossvein is slightly more distal in position in Bu- 200, but this latter difference might be the result of r-rs being shorter). Similarly, the foreleg structure is identical to that of B. venosa. It is possible that these are fragments of a male B. venosa but it must be noted that these are not diagnostic traits and do not permit authoritative identification except to confirm that the fragments are that of an embiodean. Nonetheless, the combination of these similarities is tantalizingly suggestive of B. venosa.	en	Engel, Michael S., Grimaldi, David A. (2006): The Earliest Webspinners (Insecta: Embiodea). American Museum Novitates 3514 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3514[1:TEWIE]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2006)3514%5B1%3ATEWIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
