Burminoptila bemeneha Botosaneanu 1981 (microcaddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Hydroptilidae

Full reference: L. Botosaneanu. 1981. On a false and a genuine caddis-fly from Burmese amber (Insecta: Trichoptera, Homoptera). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 8:73-78

Belongs to Burminoptila according to W. Wichard 2021

See also Botosaneanu 1981 and Ross and York 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH In. 20180, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH)

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