Wormaldia diplobifurca Wang et al. 2021 (finger-net caddisfly)

Insecta - Trichoptera - Philopotamidae

Full reference: J. J. Wang, W. T. Zhang, and D. Ren. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Two new mid-Cretaceous caddisflies (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) from amber of Northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 2021(104891)

Belongs to Wormaldia according to J. J. Wang et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Wormaldia advenaria, Wormaldia aequalis, Wormaldia angularia, Wormaldia cercifurcata, Wormaldia cercilonga, Wormaldia congenera, Wormaldia contigua, Wormaldia cretacea, Wormaldia denticulata, Wormaldia longaeva, Wormaldia media, Wormaldia myanmari, Wormaldia nasticentia, Wormaldia pheromonia, Wormaldia pobeda, Wormaldia praecursor, Wormaldia praemissa, Wormaldia resina, Wormaldia squamosa, Wormaldia sukatshevae, Wormaldia transversa, Wormaldia vlipla

Type specimen: CNU-TRI-MA-2016506, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll)

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