Caddisflies International

Notes on the Iran Caddisflies and Role of Annulipalpian Hydropsychid Caddisflies as a Bio-monitoring Agent

BACKGROUND Eco-faunistic studies are inevitable step in environmental researches. Aquatic organisms like caddisflies are known as biological indicators for water quality assessment and water resource management. They have special role for energy flow in the freshwater habitats as food web and food chain among aquatic creatures. METHODS In addition to an extensive literature review on Iran Cad...

Catalog of the Neotropical Trichoptera (Caddisflies)

The Neotropical caddisfly (Trichoptera) fauna is cataloged from a review of over 1,000 literature citations through 2015 (partial 2016) to include 3,262 currently recognized, valid species-group names in 25 families and 155 extant genera. Fourteen subspecies are included in the total as well as 35 fossil species and 1 fossil genus. The region covered includes all of Mexico, Central America, the...

Order Trichoptera Kirby , 1813 ( Insecta ) , Caddisflies * RALPH

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Diversity and distribution of the Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) of Ecuador

BACKGROUND Aquatic insects and other freshwater animals are some of the most threatened forms of life on Earth. Caddisflies (Trichoptera) are highly biodiverse in the Neotropics and occupy a wide variety of freshwater habitats. In Andean countries, including Ecuador, knowledge of the aquatic biota is limited, and there is a great need for baseline data on the species found in these countries. H...

New Cernotina caddisflies from the Ecuadorian Amazon (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) (#20130)