Species list, Checklist of Order Embioptera (Foot spinners) for Sri Lanka (South Asia)

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Checklist for Order Embioptera Lameere, 1900 (Foot spinners)
and region Sri Lanka (South Asia)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	527 6198 14500	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	524 6193 14493	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	502 6089 14260	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Polyneoptera Martynov, 1923	62 427 804	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Embioptera Lameere, 1900 Foot spinners, Web spinners, Web-spinners, Webspinners	1 2 5	Family Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Sri Lanka
1 Family width 5 Species

Species

Genera for Sri Lanka
2 Genera with 5 Species

Aposthonia Krauss, 1912		2	Species	Taxom
Oligotoma Westwood, 1837		3	Species	Taxom

Species list for Sri Lanka
5 Species

Aposthonia ceylonica Enderlein, 1912
Aposthonia minuscula Enderlein, 1912
Oligotoma greeniana Enderlein, 1912
Oligotoma humbertiana Saussure, 1896
Oligotoma saundersii Westwood, 1837	Saunders embiid

Subnodes of Embioptera with occurrences in Sri Lanka

Family

2
5

Genera
Species

Links, sources and further information

Embioptera at gbif.org
Embioptera at irmng.org
Embioptera at itis.gov