Phryganea nigripennis Piton 1940 (large caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Phryganeidae

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Phryganea according to I. D. Sukatsheva 2016

See also Piton 1940

Sister taxa: Phryganea aquensis, Phryganea arenifera, Phryganea arkharica, Phryganea dubia, Phryganea egregia, Phryganea elegans, Phryganea elegantula, Phryganea fossilis, Phryganea grandis, Phryganea hyperborea, Phryganea kryshtofovichi, Phryganea labefacta, Phryganea latissima, Phryganea lavrushini, Phryganea lithophila, Phryganea longirostris, Phryganea meunieri, Phryganea miocenica, Phryganea obsoleta, Phryganea parschlugiana, Phryganea picea, Phryganea singularis, Phryganea spokanensis, Phryganea submersa, Phryganea ulmeri, Phryganea wickhami

Type specimen: Coll. Piton 218, a wing (parts of wing). Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

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