Abstract The artificial light sources are useful tools for sampling night active insects, however, they also possess potential environmental risks in their habitats. To test applicability and evaluate risk caddisflies (Trichoptera), the attractivity of different portable traps working with LED, UV mixed-white was studied compared traditionally used mercury-vapour lamp (in Jermy-type trap), whic...

The dynamics of physico-chemical factors and their effects on caddisfly communities were examined in 29 streams of southern Western Ghats. Monthly samples were collected from the Thadaganachiamman stream of Sirumalai Hills, Tamil Nadu from May 2006 to April 2007. Southwest and northeast monsoons favored the existence of caddisfly population in streams. A total of 20 caddisfly taxa were collecte...

MARCOS A. GONZÁLEZ, JESÚS MARTÍNEZ 1 & ANTONIO RUÍZ Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15702, Santiago de Compostela (La Coruña), Spain. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales (Zoología), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, A-376 km 1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain. E-m...

The utility of hydropsychid (Trichoptera:Hydropsychidae) caddisfly larvae for freshwater biomonitoring has been demonstrated, but the major impediment to its implementation has been the lack of species-level larval descriptions and illustrations. A rapid and reliable molecular protocol that also uses morphology is proposed because conventional approaches to associating undescribed larvae with a...