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Dipseudopsidae is a family of
caddisflies The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults. There are approximately 14,500 described species, most of which can be divided into the suborders Integripalpia and Annulipalpia on the b ...
in the order
Trichoptera The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults. There are approximately 14,500 described species, most of which can be divided into the suborders Integripalpia and Annulipalpia on the b ...
. There are about 6 genera and at least 110 described species in Dipseudopsidae. The
type genus In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal f ...
for Dipseudopsidae is '' Dipseudopsis'' F. Walker, 1852. The oldest fossils are of the extant genus '' Phylocentropus'', from the
Barremian The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 129.4 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous Epoch (or Lower Cretaceous Series). It is preceded ...
aged
Lebanese amber Lebanese amber is fossilized resin found in Lebanon and southwest Syria. It dates back approximately 130-125 million years to the Barremian of the Early Cretaceous. It formed on what was then the northern coast of Gondwana, believed to be a tropica ...
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Genera

These six genera belong to the family Dipseudopsidae: * '' Dipseudopsis'' Walker, 1852 i c g * '' Hyalopsyche'' Ulmer, 1904 i c g * '' Hyalopsychella'' Ulmer, 1930 i c g * '' Limnoecetis'' Marlier, 1955 i c g * '' Phylocentropus'' Banks, 1907 i c g b * '' Protodipseudopsis'' Ulmer, 1909 i c g *†'' Taymyrodipseudon'' Ivanov and Melnitsky 2017
Taimyr amber Taymyr or Taimyr may refer to: Places *Taymyr Peninsula, a peninsula in Siberia *Taymyr Gulf *Taymyra, a river in the Taymyr Peninsula *Lake Taymyr *Taymyr Island, an island in the Kara Sea *Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, a former federal subject of Rus ...
, Russia,
Santonian The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 86.3 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.6 ± 0.7 mya. The ...
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net


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* Trichoptera Trichoptera families {{trichoptera-stub