NOMINA CIRCUMSCRIBENTIA INSECTORUM

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Typified names:

Trichoptera Kirby 1813

NOMEN: Trichoptera Kirby 1813 [W. Kirby Trichoptera, a new order of insects proposed and the characters of the order with those of genera, laid down. - Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, 1913, vol. 9: 86-123.]

 τριχος (hair) - πτερον (wing) (Kirby & Spense 1826: vol.14: 369)

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Kirby 1813): Phryganea 

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:

= Gnathostoma Leach 1815

= Plicipennes Latreille 1817 

= Lophiacera Billberg 1820 

= Trichopterida Pearce 1936

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Phryganea/fg

TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Phryganites, Phryganida, Phryganidia, Phryganeoides, Phryganina, Phryganidae, Phryganeodea, Phryganinae, Phryganeides, Phryganodea, Phryganeidae, Phryganaria, Phryganoidea, Phrydaneida

MODERN STATUS:  the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Trichoptera:

Amphiesmenoptera
  Trichoptera
  Lepidoptera