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New Species of Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from V.A. Gusakov Collection

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Three new species of caddisflies from Polycentropodidae, Phryganeidae and Leptoceridae: Plectrocnemia victori sp. nov., Wigginsiola saecularia gen. et sp. nov., Electrotriaenodes mosquensis sp. nov. are described from the Eocene Baltic amber.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to V.A. Gusakov (Moscow) for proving us with the material to study.

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches (project no. 18-04-00312) and by the Saint Petersburg State University (project nos. 1.42.721.2017 and 1.42.722.2017).

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    S. I. Melnitsky & V. D. Ivanov

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Melnitsky, S.I., Ivanov, V.D. New Species of Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from V.A. Gusakov Collection. Paleontol. J. 53, 506–510 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030119050095

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