Palaeopsilotreta cretacea Wichard et al. 2020 (caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Odontoceridae

Full reference: W. Wichard, M. Espeland, P. Müller and B. Wang. 2020. New species of caddisflies with bipectinate antennae from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Trichoptera: Odontoceratidae, Calamoceratidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 653:1-17

Belongs to Palaeopsilotreta according to W. Wichard 2021

See also Wichard et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Palaeopsilotreta burmanica, Palaeopsilotreta kachini, Palaeopsilotreta succini, Palaeopsilotreta xiai

Type specimen: ZFMK-TRI000814, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (ZFMK coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (ZFMK coll)

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