Planocephalus aselloides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hydropsychoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Trichoptera Subordo: Annulipalpia Superfamilia: Hydropsychoidea

Familia: Hydropsychidae
Genus: †Planocephalus
Species: †Planocephalus aselloides

Name

Planocephalus aselloides Scudder, 1885: 89

Synonyms

• Hydropsyche scudderi Cockerell, 1909: 387 [syn.: Shcherbakov, 2025: 302]

References

Primary references

• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1909. Descriptions of Tertiary insects, VI. American Journal of Science 27: 381–387. BHL.
• Scudder, S.H. 1885. Description of an articulate of doubtful relationship from the Tertiary beds of Florissant, Colorado. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 3: 87–90. BHL. [Note: Placed in a suborder Ballostoma in order Thysanura]
• Shcherbakov, D.E. 2025. The Headless Hexapod—on the Identity of Planocephalus aselloides Scudder, 1885 (Trichoptera, Hydropsychidae; New Placement) from the Eocene of Florissant. Entomological Review 104(4): 302–304 (2024). DOI: 10.1134/S0013873824040079 . [senior synonym of Hydropsyche scudderi Cockerell, 1909]

Additional references

• Matthew, G.F. 1897. Description of an extinct Palaeozoic insect, and a review of the fauna with which it occurs. Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick 15: 49–60. BHL. [Errata: BHL] [p. 57]
• Scudder, S.H. 1890. The Tertiary insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 13: 1–734, pls. 1–28, 1 map. BHL Reference page.