Trichoptera: Limnephilidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoHomophylax flavipennisBanks 1900Updated 21 February 2026
TSN 116287 Good LinksOn this website:Limnephilidae Introduction Other Websites: Photos, Map, Taxon Identifier Numbers - from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Homophylax flavipennis at GBIF Photos, Map, Museums, DNA - Barcode of Life Data System ReferencesAl 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. PDFQuote from page 570: "Other broadly distributed Nearctic limnephilids encountered frequently were Psychoglypha subborealis (Banks, 1924), Asynarchus montanus, Nemotaulius hostilis (Hagen, 1873), Anabolia bimaculata (Walker, 1852), and Homophylax flavipennis Banks, 1900, whereas others were infrequently encountered (e.g., Lenarchus fautini and Limnephilus secludens Banks, 1914) or only encountered once (e.g., Limnephilus tarsalis and Limnephilus thorus) (see Supplementary Material 1)." Banks,N 1900. New genera and species of Nearctic neuropteroid insects. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 26:239-260. Banks describes the genus Homophylax and the type species Homophylax flavipennis in this paper from specimens collected in Colorado.  Denning,DG 1964 The genus Homophylax (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 57:253-260. Abstract: The 8 known species of Homophylax Banks, 1900, occur in montane regions of western North America, from Alaska to California and New Mexico. The genus is characterized, and the species are keyed, described, and illustrated. New species are: H. acutus (Idaho), insulas (California), rentzi (California), and adriana (New Mexico) 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 present in Gunnison County. 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 86: "The type locality for this species is South Park, Colorado (Banks, 1900). This species is rare in collections and typically inhabits cold headwater springs (Roemhild, 1982)." The elevation range is 5,400-10,600 feet and the adults emerge from July-August. |