''Athripsodes'' is a genus of insects in the family
Leptoceridae
The family Leptoceridae are a family of caddisflies often called "long-horned caddisflies". Leptoceridae is the second largest family of caddisflies with more than 1500 species in around 45 genera. The main identifying feature of most Leptoceri ...
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The genus was described in 1820 by
Gustaf Johan Billberg
Gustaf Johan Billberg (14 June 1772, Karlskrona – 26 November 1844, Stockholm) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist, although professionally and by training he was a lawyer and used science and biology as an avocation. The plant genu ...
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The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
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Species:
* ''
Athripsodes albifrons''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Athripsodes amplexus''
(Barnard, 1934)
* ''
Athripsodes angriamani''
Schmid, 1959
References
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Trichoptera
Trichoptera genera