Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Superfamily Phryganeoidea

caddisfly - Brachycentrus americanus Caddisfly - Brachycentrus numerosus ҨҦ - Lepidostoma Rust Moth - Ptilostomis flyer - Banksiola caddisfly - Banksiola Agrypnia vestita - Phryganea Lepidostoma larva  - Lepidostoma
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
Suborder Integripalpia
Infraorder Plenitentoria
Superfamily Phryganeoidea
Numbers
135 spp. in 17 genera of 3 families in our area, >710 spp. in ~50 genera of 7 families worldwide(1)(2)(3)
Range
all 3 families represented in NA have holarctic + Oriental distributions and encompass between them 94% of the global fauna of the superfamily; of the remaining 4 tiny families 2 are Australian, one Afrotropical, and one E. Asian(3)