Leptoceroidea

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Tree based on Holzenthal et al., 2007, and the Trichoptera World Checklist (Morse, 2010).The monophyly of "Leptoceroidea" has not been supported in recent combined data analyses, but neither can it be strongly rejected. A combined Bayesian analysis of nuclear rRNA, EF1alpha, and COI data supported Leptoceroidea, with a moderate posterior probability (78%; Kjer et al., 2001), as did a weighted parsimony analysis (Kjer et al., 2002). However, a combined parsimony analysis of the same data, plus morphology showed the group in paraphyly (Kjer et al., 2001; 2002). The most comprehensive analysis of these data (Holzenthal et al., 2007) recovered a paraphyletic "Leptoceroidea", however, the node that rendered the group paraphyletic were not strongly supported.