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Phryganea

Insecta - Trichoptera - Phryganeidae

Taxonomy

Phryganea was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Phryganeidae.

It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Neuroptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Papilionaceae by Latreille (1802); to Phryganidae by Scudder (1890); and to Phryganeidae by Scudder (1877), Cockerell (1925), Martynov (1929), Carpenter (1931), Statz (1936), Piton (1940), Zeuner (1941), Carpenter (1992), Wichard et al. (2009), Wichard (2013) and Sukatsheva (2016).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Phryganea Linnaeus p. 547
1761	Phryganea Linnaeus p. 378
1762	Phryganea Geoffroy p. 241
1763	Phryganea Scopoli p. 265
1764	Phryganea Müller p. 64
1766	Phryganea Schaeffer
1767	Phryganea Linnaeus p. 908
1768	Phryganea Strøm p. 343
1775	Phryganea Fabricius p. 306
1776	Phryganea Müller p. 144
1796	Phryganea Latreille p. 103
1798	Phryganea Fabricius p. 197
1802	Phryganea Latreille p. 297
1877	Phryganea Scudder p. 762
1890	Phryganea Scudder p. 197
1925	Phryganea Cockerell p. 2
1929	Phryganea Martynov p. 205
1931	Phryganea Carpenter p. 320
1936	Phryganea Statz p. 224
1940	Phryganea Piton p. 153
1941	Phryganea Zeuner
1992	Phryganea Carpenter
2009	Phryganea Wichard et al. p. 297
2013	Phryganea Wichard p. 94
2016	Phryganea Sukatsheva p. 398

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata

Rank	Name	Author
—	Panorpida
superorder	Amphiesmenoptera	Kiriakoff 1948
—	Metamphiesmenoptera
—	Euamphiesmenoptera
—	Panendymenoptera
—	Endymenoptera
—	Stelloptera
order	Trichoptera	Kirby 1815
—	Eutrichoptera
suborder	Integripalpia
infraorder	Phryganides	()
—	Plenitentoria	(Weaver 1984)
superfamily	Phryganeoidea
family	Phryganeidae	Leach 1815
genus	Phryganea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Phryganea Linnaeus 1758

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†Phryganea aquensis Heer 1883

†Phryganea arenifera Fritsch 1910

†Phryganea arkharica Sukacheva 1982

†Phryganea dubia Pictet and Hagen 1856

†Phryganea egregia Ulmer 1912

†Phryganea elegans Piton 1936

†Phryganea elegantula Meunier 1919

†Phryganea fossilis Pictet and Hagen 1856

Phryganea grandis Linnaeus 1758

†Phryganea hyperborea Heer 1883

†Phryganea kryshtofovichi Cockerell 1923

†Phryganea labefacta Scudder 1890

†Phryganea latissima Ulmer 1912

†Phryganea lavrushini Cockerell 1925

†Phryganea lithophila Statz 1936

†Phryganea longirostris Hagen 1856

†Phryganea meunieri Statz 1936

†Phryganea miocenica Cockerell 1913

†Phryganea nigripennis Piton 1940

Phryganea obsoleta Hagen 1864

†Phryganea parschlugiana Heer 1883

†Phryganea picea Pictet and Hagen 1856

†Phryganea singularis Ulmer 1912

†Phryganea spokanensis Carpenter 1931

†Phryganea submersa Statz 1936

†Phryganea ulmeri Meunier 1918

†Phryganea vkoivekiraz Melnitsky et al. 2024

†Phryganea wickhami Cockerell 1914

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 99.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (32 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Czech Republic	P. arenifera (123774)
Danian	66.0 - 61.6	Russian Federation	P. arkharica (114328)
Selandian	61.6 - 59.2	France (Auvergne)	P. nigripennis (113685)
Selandian	61.6 - 59.2	Greenland	P. hyperborea (124000)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Poland	P. picea (120811) P. picea, P. fossilis, P. dubia, P. longirostris (109625)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Ukraine	P. vkoivekiraz (113621)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	P. egregia (110735) P. picea, P. egregia (123757) P. picea, P. latissima, P. egregia (124073) P. picea, P. latissima, P. singularis (123927) P. picea, P. singularis (123928)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Primorskiy)	P. sp. (123794)
Chadronian	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	P. labefacta (106382 106384 124681) P. labefacta, P. wickhami (113749) P. miocenica (127617)
MP 30	28.4 - 23.03	Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen)	P. elegantula (138696)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Kazakhstan (Saisan)	P. sp. (114018)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	France (Bouches-Du-Rhone)	P. aquensis (122876) P. ulmeri (153144)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	P. pupa sp nov 1, P. pupa sp nov 2, P. pupa sp nov 3, P. elegantula, P. lithophila, P. submersa, P. meunieri (122010)
Aquitanian	23.03 - 20.44	Germany	P. obsoleta (123872)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	Russian Federation	P. lavrushini (113705)
Langhian	15.97 - 13.82	USA (Washington)	P. spokanensis (140652)
Langhian	15.97 - 13.82	USA (Idaho)	P. sp. (97616)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Austria (Steiermark)	P. parschlugiana (115306)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.608 - 5.333	Russian Federation	P. kryshtofovichi (127629)
Vallesian - Turolian	11.608 - 5.333	Spain (Lleida)	P. sp. (140806)
Gelasian	2.588 - 1.806	France	P. elegans (113996)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	United Kingdom (Worcestershire)	P. obsoleta (163070)