Arctopsyche ladogensis
Arctopsyche ladogensis, the Ladoga net-spinning caddisfly, is a species of caddisfly in the family Hydropsychidae. It is found in Europe, Northern Asia, and northern North America.

Hallvard Elven, Naturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArctopsychePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 780 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Arctopsyche ladogensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
5 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Arctopsyche ladogensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arctopsyche ladogensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Arctopsyche ladogensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
248 taxa- Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis5 sites
- Curculionidae5 sites
- Cyriophthalmus variegatus5 sites
- Eucnecosum5 sites
- Agabus4 sites
- Agabus (Gaurodytes) affinis4 sites
- Amara4 sites
- Bembidion4 sites
- Bledius4 sites
- Carabidae4 sites
- Chrysolina4 sites
- Dyschirius4 sites
- Dytiscidae4 sites
- Eucnecosum brunnescens4 sites
- Hydroporus4 sites
- Ilybius4 sites
- Notaris acridulus4 sites
- Olophrum4 sites
- Pterostichus (Cryobius)4 sites
- Staphylinini4 sites
- Tachinus elongatus4 sites
- Arctobyrrhus subcanus3 sites
- Bembidion (Asioperyphus) sordidum3 sites
- Bembidion (Bracteon) levettei3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Arctopsyche ladogensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Arctopsyche ladogensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hallvard Elven, Naturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Arctopsyche ladogensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArctopsyche through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kolenati 1859)