The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Trichoptera

(Caddisflies)

LEPTOCERIDAE

Oecetis inconspicua (Walker)




 Photogallery: 

 

 

Synonyms:  Leptocerus incerta
                   Oecetina flavida
                   Oecetina inornata
                   Oecetina incerta Provancher
                                           (Tucker 1908)
                   Oecetis apicalis
                   Setodes flaveolata

 
Distribution Citations

1908 Tucker

[1941 Ross]
1944 Ross

1950 Hall
1953 Sublette
1955 Sublette

1961 Edwards & Arnold

1970 Stewart Milliger Solon
1973 Edwards
1973 Stewart Friday Rhame
1975 Longley
1978 Darville
1978 Resh White White
1979 Fisher

 

1980 Darville & Harrel

1992 Tiemann
1993 Moulton Petri Stewart
1996 Easley
1997 Abbott Stewart Moulton
[1977 Moulton & Stewart]
1999c BFL

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

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

notes:

-very common, may have widest range of any North American caddisfly species (Edwards 1977)

-larvae show preference for sandy substrate (Sublette 1953)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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