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A new genus and seven new species of the caddisfly families Philopotamidae, Polycentropodidae, Ecnomidae, Hydroptilidae, and Leptoceridae (Wormaldia nasticentia sp. nov., Holocentropus flexiflagrum sp. nov., Electrocyrnus perpusillus gen. et sp. nov., Archaeotinodes reveraverus sp. nov., Agraylea electroscientia sp. nov., Triplectides palaeoslavicus sp. nov., and Leptocerus solifemella sp. nov.) from the Rovno amber (Upper Eocene, Ukraine) are described
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Original Russian Text © S.I. Melnitsky, V.D. Ivanov, 2010, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, No. 3, pp. 57–64.
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Melnitsky, S.I., Ivanov, V.D. New species of caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Rovno amber, Eocene of Ukraine. Paleontol. J. 44, 303–311 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003103011003010X
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