Fig. 2 in Silk Spinning Behavior Varies from Species-Specific to Individualistic in Embioptera: Do Environmental Correlates Account for this Diversity?

Fig. 2. Examples of silk spun by embiopterans in their natural habitats. Domicile and gallery structure scores used in the statistical analyses are reported in SuppTable 2 [online only]. (A) Clothoda nr. longicauda Ross (Clothodidae) with exposed silk typified by a thick outer coating of silk, in this case reinforced even further with gathered materials, (B) Pararhagadochir trinitatis (Saussure) (Scelembiidae) with galleries exposed to the elements but quite thin, (C) Conicercembia septentrionalis (Mariño & Márquez) (Scelembiidae) with very thin exposed silk over the bark, (D) Notoligotoma hardyi (Friederichs) (Notoligotomidae) showing a typical colony on lichen-covered granite with a close-up of the exposed thick tubes of silk, (E) Neorhagadochir moreliensis (Ross) (Scelembiidae) with thick silk tubes found under bark flaps, (F) Ptilocerembia thaidina Poolprasert & Edgerly (Ptilocerembiidae) with very thin silk, also found mostly living under bark and inside crevices, (G and H) Metoligotoma species Davis (Australembiidae) all of which live in leaf litter; (I) Haploembia tarsalis (Ross) (Oligotomidae) with thin silk lining underground crevices, (J) Haploembia solieri with thin silk under rocks and in leaf litter.