Wormaldia is a genus of fingernet caddisflies in the family Philopotamidae. There are more than 140 described species in Wormaldia.[1][2][3][4] Fossil species have been described from the Late Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Trichoptera |
| Family: | Philopotamidae |
| Genus: | Wormaldia McLachlan, 1865 |
| Diversity | |
| at least 140 species | |
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Wormaldia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Wormaldia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Wormaldia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Morse, John C. (2019). "Trichoptera World Checklist". International Symposia on Trichoptera. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ Wang, Jiajia; Zhang, Weiting; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong (2021-10-01). "Two new mid-Cretaceous caddisflies (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) from amber of Northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 126: 104891. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104891. ISSN 0195-6671.
Further reading
edit- Merritt, Richard W.; Cummins, Kenneth W., eds. (2008). An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America. Kendall/Hunt. ISBN 978-0787232412.
- Houghton, D. C.; DeWalt, R. E.; Pytel, A. J.; Brandin, C. M.; et al. (2018). "Updated checklist of the Michigan (USA) caddisflies, with regional and habitat affinities". ZooKeys (730): 57–74. doi:10.3897/zookeys.730.21776. PMC 5799788. PMID 29416396.
- Wiggins, Glenn B. (1996). Larvae of the North American caddisfly genera (Trichoptera). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442655065.
External links
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