Archaeopolycentra turvalsia Melnitsky and Ivanov 2021 (caddisfly)

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)

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