Wormaldia

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Wormaldia
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Trichoptera
Family: Philopotamidae
Genus: Wormaldia
McLachlan, 1865
Diversity
at least 140 species
Synonyms[1]
  • Dolophilus McLachlan, 1868

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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