Embioptera
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Embioptera
an order of hemimetabolous insects (see EXOPTERYGOTA). The males have four wings and the females are wingless. They are social animals, living in silk tunnels below bark or stones.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005