ZooKeys 654: Catalog of the Neotropical Trichoptera (Caddisflies)

About this book

The Neotropics is a region of climatic and physiographic extremes, including among the world's driest deserts and highest mountains, its largest river basin, vast expanses of tropical lowland rainforests and savannas, temperate forests, and sub- antarctic lands. The region's long and complex geological history has resulted in the evolution of a hyperdiverse and highly endemic flora and fauna, including a rich and still very incompletely explored diversity of caddisflies, or Trichoptera, living in the region's great variety of freshwater ecosystems. These insects are critical components of the energy flow and trophic dynamics of the rivers, streams, lakes, and other waterbodies in which they live as larvae and pupae. They are also important as biological indicators of the health and quality of freshwaters, as they are sensitive to most types of human-caused disturbance and pollution.

More than 3,200 of the world's approximately 15,000 caddisfly species occur in the region covered by this catalog (Mexico, the Caribbean, Central, and South America). For each of the 3,262 nominal species treated, information on the type locality, type depository, sex of type, distribution by country, and other pertinent taxonomic or biological information is included. Summary information on taxonomy, phylogeny, distribution, immature stages, and biology are provided for each of the 25 families and 156 genera. Genus-group and species-group synonyms are also listed. An extensive index to all nominal taxa is included to facilitate use of the catalog. This information was compiled from over 1,000 literature citations reviewed through 2015. It is hoped that Catalog of the Neotropical Trichoptera (Caddisflies) will aid future study and exploration of this diverse order of insects so important to the function and health of the world's precious freshwater habitats.

Contents

Introduction   3
Biogeography   4
Taxonomic history of the fauna   5
Other checklists, catalogs, and bibliographies   6
Purpose of the catalog   8
Definition of the region covered   9
Fossil species   10
Format of the catalog   10
Trichoptera classification   12
List of type depositories   18

Catalog   20
      Family Anomalopsychidae   20
      Family Atriplectididae   24
      Family Calamoceratidae   25
      Family Ecnomidae   37
      Family Glossosomatidae   42
      Family Helicophidae   76
      Family Helicopsychidae   79
      Family Hydrobiosidae   97
      Family Hydropsychidae   124
      Family Hydroptilidae   190
      Family Kokiriidae   306
      Family Lepidostomatidae   306
      Family Leptoceridae   311
      Family Limnephilidae   347
      Family Odontoceridae   358
      Family Philopotamidae   365
      Family Philorheithridae   409
      Family Polycentropodidae   411
      Family Pseudoneureclipsidae   444
      Family Psychomyiidae   445
      Family Rhyacophilidae   446
      Family Sericostomatidae   447
      Family Stenopsychidae   451
      Family Tasimiidae   452
      Family Xiphocentronidae   453
      Trichoptera, incertae sedis   461

Acknowledgements   461
References   462
Index   524

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