Phryganea hyperborea Heer 1883 (large caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Phryganeidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1883. Ueber die fossilen Insekten Grönlands. Flora Fossilis Grönlandica. Die Fossile Flora Grönlands 143-148

Belongs to Phryganea according to I. D. Sukatsheva 2016

See also Heer 1883

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Upper Atanekerdluk, which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Upper Atanekerdluk

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