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Infraorder Brevitentoria

Longhorned Caddisfly - Triaenodes Black Dancer - Mystacides sepulchralis Caddisfly? Nectopsyche? Trichoptera - Triaenodes Trichoptera - Oecetis cinerascens At porch light - Oecetis Please help us to identify this guy. White Miller Caddisflies Genus Nectopsyche - Nectopsyche
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Suborder Integripalpia
Infraorder Brevitentoria
Explanation of Names
Brevitentoria Weaver 1984
Numbers
20 families in 3 superfamilies total(1)
Range
worldwide; 1 small superfamily restricted to Australasia(1)
Works Cited
1.Order Trichoptera. In: Thorp J., Rogers D.C. (Eds.) Ecology and general biology: Thorp and Covich's freshwater invertebrates
Holzenthal R.W., Thomson R.E., Ríos-Touma B. 2015. Academic Press, 965–1002.
Contributed by v belov on 1 February, 2015 - 8:42pm

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