Insecta - Trichoptera - Polycentropodidae
Full reference: S. I. Melnitsky and V. D. Ivanov. 2021. Two new species of the genus Archaeopolycentra (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) from Cretaceous Taimyr amber. Far Eastern Entomologist 444:1-7
Belongs to Archaeopolycentra according to S. I. Melnitsky and V. D. Ivanov 2021
Sister taxa: Archaeopolycentra achupomotet, Archaeopolycentra longesilentia, Archaeopolycentra yantardakh, Archaeopolycentra zherikhini
Type specimen: PIN 3311/1861, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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