Insecta - Trichoptera - Dipseudopsidae
Full reference: W. Wichard and D. Azar. 2018. First caddisflies (Trichoptera) in Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:213-217
Belongs to Phylocentropus according to W. Wichard and D. Azar 2018
Sister taxa: Phylocentropus (Veteropsyche), Phylocentropus antiquus, Phylocentropus cretaceous, Phylocentropus ligulatus, Phylocentropus simplex, Phylocentropus spiniger, Phylocentropus swolenskyi
Type specimen: Azar 500, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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