Nyctiophylax ispokonvekov Melnitsky et al. 2025 (caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Polycentropodidae

Full reference: S. I. Melnitsky, V. D. Ivanov, and E. E. Perkovsky. 2025. Taxonomic names, in New Nyctiophylax Brauer, 1865 and Plectrocnemia Stephens, 1836 (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) from Eocene Rovno amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 83:104-111

Belongs to Nyctiophylax according to S. I. Melnitsky et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Nyctiophylax acutus, Nyctiophylax articulatus, Nyctiophylax bidentatus, Nyctiophylax claviger, Nyctiophylax coalitus, Nyctiophylax curvus, Nyctiophylax diffissus, Nyctiophylax endrusseiti, Nyctiophylax excelsus, Nyctiophylax hamatus, Nyctiophylax insectus, Nyctiophylax leningrad, Nyctiophylax ovatus, Nyctiophylax pexus, Nyctiophylax procerus, Nyctiophylax quadruplex, Nyctiophylax rectus, Nyctiophylax repandus, Nyctiophylax sellatus, Nyctiophylax serpentinus, Nyctiophylax sinuatus, Nyctiophylax subacuminatus, Nyctiophylax terreusbos, Nyctiophylax totaktoetak, Nyctiophylax unguicularis, Nyctiophylax valideturbidus, Nyctiophylax varians

Type specimen: SIZK CC-58, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno amber, Stare Selo (SIZK CC collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rovno amber, Stare Selo (SIZK CC collection)

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