Trichoptera: Limnephilidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoLimnephilus sublunatusProvancher 1877Updated 21 February 2026
TSN 116107 Good LinksOn this website:Limnephilus Introduction Other Websites: Photos, Map, Taxon Identifier Numbers - from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Limnephilus sublunatus at GBIF Photos, Map, Museum specimens, DNA - Barcodinglife.org ReferencesAl Mousa,MDA 2020 Studies on the Odonata and Trichoptera of high-elevation lakes of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. MS Thesis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. 187 pages. PDFQuote from page 86: "Limnephilus sublunatus Provancher 1877 was also collected and recorded from five lakes at elevation range of 2,550-2,918m between 1924 and 2020 in Grand (2), and Larimer (3) Counties (Fig. 3.18, Appendix 4)." Al Mousa,MDA; Nachappa,P; Ruiter,DE; Givens,DR and Fairchild,MP 2022 Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) of montane and alpine lakes of northern Colorado (USA). Western North American Naturalist, 82(3), pp.563-576. PDF Quote from page 570: "Other broadly distributed Nearctic Limnephilus species (e.g., L. sublunatus Provancher, 1877, L. diversus [Banks, 1903], and L. perpusillus Walker, 1852) were less often encountered yet still represented in recent collections (Table 2, Supplementary Material 1)." Balik,JA; Leitz,C; Washko,SE; Cleveland,B; Krejsa,DM; Perchik,ME; Stogsdill,A; Vlah,M; Demi,LM; Greig,HS and Shepard,ID 2022 Species-specific traits predict whole-assemblage detritus processing by pond invertebrates. Oecologia, 199(4), pp.951-963. PDF Balik,JA; Taylor,BW; Washko,SE and Wissinger,SA 2018 High interspecific variation in nutrient excretion within a guild of closely related caddisfly species. Ecosphere, 9(5) p.e02205. PDF Banks,N 1943 Notes and descriptions of Nearctic Trichoptera. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 92: 341-369, plates 1-6. 
Herrmann,SJ; Ruiter,DE and Unzicker,JD 1986 Distribution and records of Colorado Trichoptera. Southwestern Naturalist 31 4, 421-457. The authors show this species is present in Gunnison County. Copied from page 445: "Drainages: Colorado, Gunnison, North Platte, South Platte. Habitat: lakes. Altitudinal range: 2550 to 2896 meters. Adult Collection Dates: 12 June to 28 August. Commentary: Nimmo (1971) reported this species inhabiting pools, sloughs and lakes fringed with horse-tails or sedges." McCullagh,BS; Wissinger,SA and Marcus,JM 2015 Identifying PCR primers to facilitate molecular phylogenetics in Caddisflies (Trichoptera). Zoological Systematics, 40(4) 459 PDF Nimmo,A 1971 The adult Rhyacophilidae and Limnephilidae (Trichoptera) of Alberta and eastern British Columbia and their post glacial origin. Quaestiones Entomologicae 73: 3-234. Provancher,MA 1877 Petite fauna entomologique du Canada. Trichoptères. Naturaliste Canadien 9: 241-244. Described as Limnophilus sublunatus.  Zuellig,RE; Heinold,BD; Kondratieff,BC and Ruiter,DE 2012 Diversity and Distribution of Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, 1873-2010. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 606, 257 p. PDF - caution 46MB Quote from page 91: "These few records from the upper part of the Cache la Poudre River drainage represent the only accounts of this species in the SPRB. Nimmo (1971) reported it to be associated with standing water habitats." The elevation range is 9,000-9,300 feet and the adults emerge from July-August. |