Hydroptila apalachicola

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Hydroptila apalachicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Trichoptera
Suborder: Spicipalpia
Superfamily: Hydroptiloidea
Family: Hydroptilidae
Genus: Hydroptila
Species: H. apalachicola
Binomial name
Hydroptila apalachicola
Harris, Pescador & Rasmussen 1998

Hydroptila apalachicola is a species of microcaddisfly. It is only known from three adult males collected from cold spring-fed streams in the Apalachicola National Forest, Florida. This is a tiny brown caddisfly up to 3.2 mm in length and can only be distinguished from its closest relatives by minute differences in the structure of the tenth abdominal tergum.

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