kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Trichoptera >
superfamily: Glossosomatoidea Wallengren, 1891 >
family: Glossosomatidae Wallengren, 1891 >
subfamily: Glossosomatinae Wallengren, 1891 >
tribe: Glossosomatini Wallengren, 1891 >
genus: Glossosoma Curtis, 1834 >
subgenus: Ripaeglossa Ross, 1956 >
North America