Wormaldia longaeva Sukatsheva 2014 (finger-net caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Philopotamidae

Full reference: I. D. Sukatsheva. 2014. Caddis-flies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Bembridge Marls, Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104:327-333

Belongs to Wormaldia according to I. D. Sukatsheva 2014

Sister taxa: Wormaldia advenaria, Wormaldia aequalis, Wormaldia angularia, Wormaldia cercifurcata, Wormaldia cercilonga, Wormaldia congenera, Wormaldia contigua, Wormaldia cretacea, Wormaldia denticulata, Wormaldia diplobifurca, Wormaldia media, Wormaldia myanmari, Wormaldia nasticentia, Wormaldia pheromonia, Wormaldia pobeda, Wormaldia praecursor, Wormaldia praemissa, Wormaldia resina, Wormaldia squamosa, Wormaldia sukatshevae, Wormaldia transversa, Wormaldia vlipla

Type specimen: BMNH I.9718, a forewing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)

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