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Oecetis

Oecetis is a genus of long-horned caddisflies in the family Leptoceridae. There are at least 450 described species in Oecetis.

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Oecetis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Trichoptera
Family: Leptoceridae
Genus: Oecetis
McLachlan, 1877
Diversity
at least 410 species
Synonyms1
  • Oecetina Banks, 1899

Oecetis is a genus of long-horned caddisflies in the family Leptoceridae. There are at least 450 described species in Oecetis.1234

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Larvae

Oecetis larvae live at the bottom of both lakes and streams.5

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Oecetis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Oecetis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. Morse, John C. (2019). "Trichoptera World Checklist". International Symposia on Trichoptera. Archived from the original on 2020-02-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. Wiggins, G. (2014). Larvae of the North American Caddisfly Genera (Trichoptera) (2 ed.). Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-4426-5506-5.
Further reading

Further reading

External links
  • Media related to Oecetis at Wikimedia Commons