Order Trichoptera
(caddisflies)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

• Parent taxa
  
  
  
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  Superorder Neoptera
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  Holometabola
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  Order Trichoptera (caddisflies)
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  Superfamily Glossosomatoidea
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  Family Glossosomatidae
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  Superfamily Hydropsychoidea
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  Family Dipseudopsidae
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  Family Ecnomidae
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  Family Hydropsychidae (net-spinning caddisflies)
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  Family Polycentropodidae
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  Family Psychomyiidae (trumpet-net caddisflies and tube-making caddisflies)
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  Family Xiphocentronidae
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  Superfamily Hydroptiloidea
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  Family Hydroptilidae (micro-caddisflies)
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  Superfamily Leptoceroidea
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  Family Atriplectididae
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  Family Calamoceratidae
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  Family Kokiriidae
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  Family Leptoceridae (long-horn caddisflies)
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  Family Limnocentropodidae
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  Family Molannidae
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  Family Odontoceridae
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  Family Philorheithridae
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  Superfamily Limnephiloidea
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  Family Apataniidae
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  Family Brachycentridae
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  Family Goeridae
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  Family Lepidostomatidae
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  Family Limnephilidae (northern caddisflies)
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  Family Oeconesidae
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  Family Pisuliidae
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  Family Rossianidae
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  Family Uenoidae
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  Superfamily Philopotamoidea
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  Family Philopotamidae (finger-net caddisflies)
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  Family Stenopsychidae
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  Superfamily Phryganeoidea
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  Family Phryganeidae (large caddisflies)
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  Family Phryganopsychidae
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  Family Plectrotarsidae
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  Superfamily Rhyacophiloidea
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  Family Hydrobiosidae
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  Family Rhyacophilidae (primitive caddisflies)
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  Superfamily Sericostomatoidea
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  Family Anomalopsychidae
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  Family Antipodoeciidae
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  Family Barbarochthonidae
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  Family Beraeidae
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  Family Calocidae
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  Genus Ceylanopsyche
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  Family Chathamiidae
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  Family Conoesucidae
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  Family Helicophidae
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  Family Helicopsychidae (snail-case caddisflies)
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  Family Hydrosalpingidae
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  Genus Karomana
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  Genus Mpuga
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  Genus Ngoya
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  Family Petrothrincidae
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  Family Sericostomatidae
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  Genus Seselpsyche
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  Superfamily Tasimioidea
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  Family Tasimiidae