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Table 3: Caddisflies (Trichoptera) known from Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. Numbers shown in bold font after species refer to localities within parks found in Table 1.
Order Trichoptera
Family Calamoceratidae
  • Phylloicus aeneus (Hagen): 2, 12, 13
Family Glossosomatidae
  • Protoptila alexanderi Ross: 6, 7
Family Helicopsychidae
  • Helicopsyche borealis (Hagen): 6, 7, 13, 14, 23, 24
  • Helicopysche sp.: 23, 24
Family Hydroptilidae
  • Alisotrichia arizonica (Blickle and Denning): 1, 2, 13
  • Hydroptila angusta Ross: 14
  • H. arctia Ross: 13
  • H. icona Mosely: 6, 7, 14
  • H. protera Ross: 13, 14
  • Hydroptila sp. (larvae only): 27, 28
  • Leucotrichia limpia Ross: 1, 2, 5, 6, 15
  • Mayatrichia acuna Ross: 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
  • M. ayama Mosely: 6, 7, 14, 16
  • Neotrichia minutisimella (Chambers): 14
  • N. sonora Ross: 26
  • Ochrotrichia boquillas Moulton and Harris: 5, 6, 7
  • O. capitana Ross: 5, 11, 29
  • O. dactylophora Flint: 13
  • O. spinulata Denning and Blickle: 13
  • O. tarsalis (Hagen): 6, 7
  • O. rothi Denning and Blickle: 13
  • Oxyethira aculea Ross: 6, 7, 19, 20
  • O. azteca (Mosely): 6, 7
  • Oxyethira sp.: 1, 2, 19, 20
Family Hydropsychidae
  • Cheumatopsyche arizonensis (Ling): 2
  • Cheumatopsyche campyla Ross: 6, 7
  • Cheumatopsyche lasia Ross: 2, 6, 7, 14
  • Smicridea fasciatella McLachlan: 6, 7
  • S. signata (Banks): 6, 7, 14
Family Leptoceridae
  • Nectopsyche gracilis (Banks): 14
Family Odontoceridae
  • Marilia flexuosa Ulmer or M. mexicana (Banks): 1, 2, 11, 13, 15, 22, 25, 26, 29, 36, 37, 38
  • Marilia nobsca Milne: 1, 2, 12, 13, 25
Family Philopotamidae
  • Chimarra adella Denning: 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15
  • C. angustipennis (Banks): 5
  • C. ridleyi (Denning): 2, 12, 13, 22
  • C. utahensis (Ross): 5
  • Chimarra sp.: 2
  • Wormaldia arizonensis (Ling): 11, 13, 21
Family Polycentropodidae
  • Polycentropus halidus Milne: 2, 13
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