Psilochorema embersoni
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| Psilochorema embersoni | |
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| Male holotype specimen from the collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Trichoptera |
| Family: | Hydrobiosidae |
| Genus: | Psilochorema |
| Species: | P. embersoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Psilochorema embersoni Wise, 1982 | |
Psilochorema embersoni is a species of caddisfly belonging to the family Hydrobiosidae.[2] The species was first described by Keith Arthur John Wise in 1982, and is endemic to New Zealand.
The species was identified by Wise in 1982, based on a specimen collected by Rowan Mark Emberson and C. A. Muir from the Murchison Mountains in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand.[3][4] Wise named the species after Emberson.[3]