Family Helicopsychidae Ulmer 1912 (snail-case caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Helicopsychidae

Alternative spelling: Helicopsychinae

Full reference: G. Ulmer. 1912. Die Trichopteren des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens 10:1-380

Parent taxon: Sericostomatoidea according to S. I. Melnitsky et al. 2024

See also Carpenter 1992, Johanson et al. 2017, Johanson and Wichard 1996, Johanson and Wichard 1997, Thomas et al. 2023, Ulmer 1912, Wichard 2013 and Wichard et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Beraeidae, Burmapsychidae, Cretapsychidae, Dysoneuridae, Helicophidae, Sericostomatidae

Subtaxa: Cretahelicopsyche Electrohelicopsyche Helicopsyche Palaeohelicopsyche

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections)

• Eocene of Poland (2), the Russian Federation (9), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)

Total: 16 collections including 28 occurrences

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