The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Trichoptera

(Caddisflies)

LEPTOCERIDAE

Oecetis avara (Banks)

Long-Horned Sedge


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Synonyms:  Setodes avara

 
Distribution Citations

[1944 Ross]

1950 Hall

1961 Edwards & Arnold

1973 Edwards
1973 Stewart Friday Rhame
1979 Fisher

1980 Davis SCD-PR

 

1992 Tiemann
1993 Moulton Petri Stewart
1996 Easley
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
[1997 Moulton & Stewart]
1998 Moring Rosendale
         Ansley Brown
1999c BFL

2003c Favret
2008 Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv.
[2008 NatureServe]

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-one of the more common trichopteran species along Texas' larger streams (Edwards 1973)

-larvae are predators &/or shredders (Easley 1996)

-larvae construct curved, often tapered cases of coarse mineral or plant fragments (Fisher 1979)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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