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Caddisfly

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The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults. [1]

112 relations: Alderfly, Amphiesmenoptera, Angling, Annulipalpia, Antenna (biology), Apataniidae, Aquatic animal, Artificial fly, Baissoferidae, Benthos, Bioindicator, Brachycentridae, Calamoceratidae, Chathamiidae, Cheumatopsyche, Clade, Cladogram, Convergent evolution, Detritus, Dipseudopsidae, DNA, Dragonfly, Dysoneuridae, Ecnomidae, Egg, Endopterygota, Enoicyla pusilla, Exuviae, Flea, Fly, Fly fishing, Food web, Fossil, Glossosomatidae, Goeridae, Greek language, Helicopsyche, Hubert Duprat, Hydrobiosidae, Hydropsyche, Hydropsychidae, Hydroptilidae, Hymenoptera, Insect, Insect wing, Instar, Integripalpia, Izaak Walton, Kalophryganeidae, Kokiriidae, ..., Larva, Lepidoptera, Lepidostoma, Lepidostomatidae, Leptoceridae, Leptoceroidea, Leptocerus, Limnephilidae, Limnephiloidea, Marsh, Mayfly, Mecoptera, Microbiota, Molannidae, Molecular phylogenetics, Monophyly, Moth, Mystacides, Neuroptera, Oak, Odontoceridae, Oecetis, Order (biology), Oxford University Press, Paraphyly, Periphyton, Permian, Philopotamidae, Philopotamoidea, Phryganea, Phyrganeoidea, Pisuliidae, Plecoptera, Plectrotarsidae, Polycentropodidae, Protein, Psychomyiidae, Pupa, Rhyacophilidae, Rhyacophiloidea, Sclerotin, Sericostoma, Sericostomatidae, Sericostomatoidea, Silk, Sister group, Snail-case caddisfly, Snow scorpionfly, Spicipalpia, Stenopsychidae, Tasimiidae, Tasimioidea, The Compleat Angler, Triassic, Trout, Turtle, Uenoidae, Vernal pool, Water pollution, William Kirby (entomologist), Worcestershire, Xiphocentronidae. Expand index (62 more) »

Alderfly

Alderflies are megalopteran insects of the family Sialidae.

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Amphiesmenoptera

Amphiesmenoptera is an insect superorder, established by S. G. Kiriakoff, but often credited to Willi Hennig in his revision of insect taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies).

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Angling

Angling is a method of fishing by means of an "angle" (fish hook).

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Annulipalpia

The Annulipalpia, also known as the "fixed-retreat makers", are a suborder of Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (singular: antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers," are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

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Apataniidae

Apataniidae is a family of early smoky wing sedges in the order Trichoptera.

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Aquatic animal

A aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime.

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Artificial fly

An artificial fly or fly lure is a type of fishing lure, usually used in the sport of fly fishing (although they may also be used in other forms of angling).

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Baissoferidae

Baisserferidae is an extinct family in the order Trichoptera (caddis flies).

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Benthos

Benthos is the community of organisms that live on, in, or near the seabed, also known as the benthic zone.

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Bioindicator

A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment.

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Brachycentridae

Brachycentridae is a family of humpless casemaker caddisflies in the order Trichoptera.

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Calamoceratidae

Calamoceratidae is a family of caddisflies in the order Trichoptera.

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Chathamiidae

Chathamiidae is a family of case making caddisflies more commonly known as the marine caddisflies.

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Cheumatopsyche

Cheumatopsyche is a genus of netspinning caddisflies in the family Hydropsychidae.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.

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Detritus

In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material (as opposed to dissolved organic material).

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Dipseudopsidae

Dipseudopsidae is a family of caddisflies in the order Trichoptera.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.

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Dragonfly

A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera (from Greek ἄνισος anisos, "uneven" and πτερόν pteron, "wing", because the hindwing is broader than the forewing).

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Dysoneuridae

Dysoneuridae is an extinct family of insect in the order Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Ecnomidae

The Ecnomidae are a family of caddisflies comprising 9 genera with a total of 1337 species.

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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.

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Endopterygota

Endopterygota, also known as Holometabola, is a superorder of insects within the infraclass Neoptera that go through distinctive larval, pupal, and adult stages.

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Enoicyla pusilla

Enoicyla pusilla also known as the land caddis and the terrestrial caddis is a species of caddisfly in the family Limnephilidae.

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Exuviae

In biology, exuviae are the remains of an exoskeleton and related structures that are left after ecdysozoans (including insects, crustaceans and arachnids) have moulted.

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Flea

Fleas are small flightless insects that form the order Siphonaptera.

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Fly

True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".

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Fly fishing

Fly fishing is an angling method in which an artificial "fly" is used to catch fish.

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Food web

A food web (or food cycle) is a natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation (usually an image) of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Glossosomatidae

The Glossosomatidae are a family of the class Insecta and order Trichoptera.The family contains 23 genera in three subfamilies.

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Goeridae

Goeridae is a family of caddisflies in the order Trichoptera.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Helicopsyche

Helicopsyche is a genus of Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Hubert Duprat

Hubert Duprat is a French artist known for his unusual work, an artistic intersection between caddisfly larvae and gold, opal, turquoise and other precious stones.

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Hydrobiosidae

The Hydrobiosidae are a family of caddisflies in the insect order Trichoptera.

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Hydropsyche

Hydropsyche is a genus of netspinning caddisflies in the family Hydropsychidae.

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Hydropsychidae

The Hydropsychidae are a family-level taxon consisting of net-spinning caddisflies.

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Hydroptilidae

The Hydroptilidae are a large family of caddisflies (Trichoptera) with a worldwide distribution.

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Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Insect wing

Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly.

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Instar

An instar (from the Latin "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (ecdysis), until sexual maturity is reached.

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Integripalpia

The Integripalpia are a suborder of Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton (–1683) was an English writer.

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Kalophryganeidae

Kalophryganeidae is an extinct family in the order Trichoptera.

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Kokiriidae

Kokiriidae is a family of insect in the order Trichoptera.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).

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Lepidostoma

Lepidostoma is a genus of bizarre caddisflies in the family Lepidostomatidae.

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Lepidostomatidae

Lepidostomatidae is a family in the order Trichoptera.

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Leptoceridae

The family Leptoceridae are a family of caddisflies often called "long-horned caddisflies".

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Leptoceroidea

Leptoceroidea is a superfamily of caddisflies.

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Leptocerus

Leptocerus is a genus of long-horned caddisflies in the family Leptoceridae.

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Limnephilidae

Limnephilidae is a family of caddisflies with about 100 genera.

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Limnephiloidea

Limnephiloidea is a superfamily of Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Marsh

A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.

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Mayfly

Mayflies (also known as Canadian soldiers in the United States, and as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern U.S.; also up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera.

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Mecoptera

Mecoptera (from the Greek: mecos.

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Microbiota

A microbiota is an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms" found in and on all multicellular organisms studied to date from plants to animals.

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Molannidae

Molannidae is a family of Hood casemakers in the order Trichoptera.

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Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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Moth

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.

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Mystacides

Mystacides is a genus of long-horned caddisflies in the family Leptoceridae.

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Neuroptera

The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Odontoceridae

Odontoceridae is a family of mortarjoint casemakers in the order Trichoptera.

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Oecetis

Oecetis is a genus of long-horned caddisflies in the family Leptoceridae.

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Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

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Periphyton

Periphyton is a complex mixture of algae, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes, and detritus that is attached to submerged surfaces in most aquatic ecosystems.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.

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Philopotamidae

Philopotamidae is a family of insects in the order Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Philopotamoidea

The Philopotamoidea are a superfamily level taxon of the order Trichoptera which contains two caddisfly families.

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Phryganea

Phryganea is a genus of giant casemakers in the family Phryganeidae.

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Phyrganeoidea

Phyrganeoidea, the giant caddisfly superfamily, may be paraphyletic with Limnephiloidea.

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Pisuliidae

Pisuliidae is a small family of insects in the order Trichoptera found in tropical Africa and Madagascar.

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Plecoptera

The Plecoptera are an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies.

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Plectrotarsidae

Plectrotarsidae is a small Australasian family of insects in the order Trichoptera.

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Polycentropodidae

The Polycentropodidae are a family of trumpet-net and tube-making caddisflies.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Psychomyiidae

The Psychomyiidae are a family of trumpet-net and tube-making caddisflies.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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Rhyacophilidae

The Rhyacophilidae are a family in the insect order of Trichoptera.

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Rhyacophiloidea

The Rhyacophiloidea are a superfamily in the insect order Trichoptera.

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Sclerotin

Sclerotin is a component of the cuticles of various Arthropoda, most familiarly insects.

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Sericostoma

Sericostoma is a genus of bushtailed caddisflies in the family Sericostomatidae.

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Sericostomatidae

Sericostomatidae is a family of bushtailed caddisflies in the order Trichoptera.

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Sericostomatoidea

Sericostomatoidea is a superfamily in the order Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Sister group

A sister group or sister taxon is a phylogenetic term denoting the closest relatives of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Snail-case caddisfly

Helicopsychidae (snail-case caddisfly) are a family of Trichoptera.

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Snow scorpionfly

Boreidae, commonly called snow scorpionflies, or in the British Isles, snow fleas (no relation to the snow flea Hypogastrura nivicola) are a very small family of scorpionflies, containing only around 30 species, all of which are boreal or high-altitude species in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spicipalpia

The Spicipalpia are a suborder of Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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Stenopsychidae

The Stenopsychidae are a family of medium to large caddisflies, some of which are noted for their black and gold wing patterns.

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Tasimiidae

The Tasmiidae is a family of Trichoptera, erected in 1968 (Riek).The family is found in Australia and Chile.

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Tasimioidea

Tasimioidea is a superfamily of Trichoptera, the caddisflies.

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The Compleat Angler

The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernised to The Complete Angler) is a book by Izaak Walton.

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Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.

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Trout

Trout is the common name for a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae.

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Turtle

Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.

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Uenoidae

Uenoidae is a family of stonecase caddisflies in the order Trichoptera.

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Vernal pool

Vernal pools, also called vernal ponds or ephemeral pools, are temporary pools of water that provide habitat for distinctive plants and animals.

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Water pollution

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.

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William Kirby (entomologist)

William Kirby (19 September 1759 – 4 July 1850) was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country priest, making him an eminent parson-naturalist.

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Worcestershire

Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England.

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Xiphocentronidae

The Xiphocentronidae are a family of caddisflies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddisfly

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