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When did the earliest aquatic caddisflies likely diverge from terrestrial relatives?

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Caddisfly — caddisfly Adult caddisfly (*Trichoptera*).

The earliest aquatic caddisflies (order Trichoptera) likely diverged from their terrestrial relatives during the Late Triassic Period, approximately 200 million years ago.1