New species of Plectropsyche Ross 1947 (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae: Hydropsychinae)
Author
Bueno-Soria, Joaquín
Author
Barba-Alvarez, Rafael
text
Zootaxa
2015
4040
4
421
432
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.2
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Plectropsyche
†
alvarezi
Wichard, Solórzano-Kraemer & Luer 2006
Fig. 5
Plectropsyche
†
alvarezi
Wichard, Solórzano-Kraemer & Luer, 2006
, pp. 41–42, figs. 3–4;
holotype
male;
MÉXICO
: Chiapas, Miocene Mexican amber; Collection No IHNFA 014; deposited in the Instituto de Historia Natural y Ecología, Museum of Paleontology, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas,
México
.
This fossil species was described from the amber of Simojovel de Allende, Chiapas,
México
by
Wichard, et al. (2006)
. It reinforces the likelihood of a Centroamerican origin of this genus in the Neotropical region.