Wormaldia cercifurcata Wichard et al. 2020 (finger-net caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Philopotamidae

Full reference: W. Wichard, P. Müller, and B. Wang. 2020. The philopotamid genus Wormaldia (Insecta, Trichoptera) embedded in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeodiversity 13:39-47

Belongs to Wormaldia according to W. Wichard 2021

See also Wichard et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Wormaldia advenaria, Wormaldia aequalis, Wormaldia angularia, Wormaldia cercilonga, Wormaldia congenera, Wormaldia contigua, Wormaldia cretacea, Wormaldia denticulata, Wormaldia diplobifurca, Wormaldia longaeva, Wormaldia media, Wormaldia myanmari, Wormaldia nasticentia, Wormaldia pheromonia, Wormaldia pobeda, Wormaldia praecursor, Wormaldia praemissa, Wormaldia resina, Wormaldia squamosa, Wormaldia sukatshevae, Wormaldia transversa, Wormaldia vlipla

Type specimen: NIGP172212, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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