Insect Order Embioptera - web spinners
The Embioptera are a small group of soft bodied relatively small, gregarious insects, they can be found in most tropical, and warm temperate climates, there are about 300 species world wide. They are hemimetabolous (having a simple or very little metamorphosis i.e. no pupa) the males usually have two pairs of nearly equal wings (though in the Australembiide the males are apterous (wingless) while the females are apterous in all species. Their antennae are filiform (thin and linear) with 15 to 32 segments, their mouthparts designed for biting and their compound eyes are either oval or reniform (kidney shaped) and smaller in the females than the males. They have no ocelli, their cerci are 2 segmented and the males have assymetrical external genitalia.