Wormaldia

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]

Wormaldia Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Trichoptera
Family:	Philopotamidae
Genus:	Wormaldia McLachlan, 1865
Diversity
at least 140 species
Synonyms[1]
Dolophilus McLachlan, 1868

See also

• List of Wormaldia species

References

1. "Wormaldia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Wormaldia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Wormaldia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Morse, John C. (2019). "Trichoptera World Checklist". International Symposia on Trichoptera. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
5. Wang, Jiajia; Zhang, Weiting; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong (2021-10-01). "Two new mid-Cretaceous caddisflies (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) from amber of Northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 126: 104891. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104891. ISSN 0195-6671.

Further reading

• Merritt, Richard W.; Cummins, Kenneth W., eds. (2008). An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America. Kendall/Hunt. ISBN 978-0787232412.
• Houghton, D. C.; DeWalt, R. E.; Pytel, A. J.; Brandin, C. M.; et al. (2018). "Updated checklist of the Michigan (USA) caddisflies, with regional and habitat affinities". ZooKeys (730): 57–74. doi:10.3897/zookeys.730.21776. PMC 5799788. PMID 29416396.
• Wiggins, Glenn B. (1996). Larvae of the North American caddisfly genera (Trichoptera). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442655065.

External links

• Media related to Wormaldia at Wikimedia Commons