The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Trichoptera

(Caddisflies)

GLOSSOSOMATIDAE

Protoptila arca Edwards & Arnold

San Marcos Saddle-Case Caddisfly


ENDANGERED/IMPERILED or OF CONCERN

 Photogallery: 

 

 

Synonyms: 

Also Reported As:
                   Glossosoma sp.
                                            (Hall 1950)

 

Distribution Citations

1950 Hall

1961 Edwards & Arnold

1973 Edwards
1975 Longley

1992 Tiemann
1996 Moulton
[1997 Moulton & Stewart]

 

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

 

 

 

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

notes:

-Endemic to Texas (Moulton & Stewart 1997)

*Species of Concern (AOBIS 2001); Critically Imperiled (NatureServe 2008)

-specimen collected from Hays county identified as Glossosoma sp. by Hall (1950) is actually Protoptila arca (Edwards & Arnold 1961)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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