2 Webspinner at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Metoligotoma sp. (genus) | 7 Apr 2019 | KimPullen | ||
| Embioptera sp. (order) | 6 Feb 2019 | KimPullen | ||
| Embioptera sp. (order) | 6 Feb 2019 | HarveyPerkins |
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This webspinner was found in the shower and had to be rescued. The photos were taken after drying it out a bit and before release. Body length would have been about 12 mm.
5 comments
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
6 Feb 2019
I get inordinately excited by finding embiopterans. The only other one I've ever come across was in a shearwater burrow while I was surveying shearwater breeding success on Montague Island (now Barunguba) in March 2001. That specimen is somewhere in ANIC.
KimPullen
wrote:
6 Feb 2019
Nice shots Harvey. You can really appreciate the expanded front tarsi that house the silk glands.
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
8 Feb 2019
I've just added a close-up of the Terminalia. It's pretty clear that this is a male of the family Australembiidae, and almost certainly one of the Metoligotoma species
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
8 Oct 2019
And based on distribution, most likely Metoligotoma ingens (as per Miller & Edgerly 2008 - Systematics and natural history of the Australian Genus Metoligotoma Davis (Embioptera:Australembidae). Invertebrate Systematics 22: 329-344.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.036663-35.393881
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 6 Feb 2019 07:03 AM Recorded on
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Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Metoligotoma sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Webspinner Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 625m Recorded at altitude
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