Sinembiidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Callovian|Oxfordian}} | image = | taxon = Sinembiidae | authority = Huang & Nel, 2009 }}

'''Sinembiidae''' is an extinct family of webspinners in the order Embioptera. There are at least two genera and two described species in Sinembiidae.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=buglink/><ref name=Maehr2019/>

==Genera== These two genera belong to the family Sinembiidae: * † ''Juraembia'' <small>Huang & Nel, 2009</small> * † ''Sinembia'' <small>Huang & Nel, 2009</small>

Both were discovered in the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, and described in 2009. The female of ''Juraembia ningchengensis'' had wings, supporting Ross's proposal that both sexes of ancestral Embioptera were winged.<ref name="HuangNel2009">{{cite journal |last1=Huang |first1=Di-Ying |last2=Nel |first2=André |title=Oldest webspinners from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Insecta: Embiodea) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=156 |issue=4 |year=2009 |pages=889–895 |issn=0024-4082 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00499.x|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=Sinembiidae | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4387268 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2019-05-23 }}</ref>

<ref name=buglink> {{Cite web| title=The Paleobiology Database, family Sinembiidae | url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=281193 | accessdate=2019-05-23 }}</ref>

<ref name=Maehr2019> {{Cite web | accessdate = 2019-05-23 | title = family Sinembiidae Huang & Nel, 2009 | date = 2019 | last1 = Maehr | first1 = M.D. | last2 = Eades | first2 = D.C. | url = http://Embioptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1171936 | website = Embioptera species file online, Version 5.0 }}</ref> }}

Category:Embioptera Category:Prehistoric insect families