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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Superfamily Phryganeoidea


Larvae of the North American Caddisfly Genera (Trichoptera)
By Glenn B. Wiggins
University of Toronto Press, 1977
Out of print, but a great resource if you can find it. Excellent illustrations of caddisfly larvae and their cases.

The caddisfly family Phryganeidae (Trichoptera)
By Wiggins, G. B.
University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ix + 306 p., 1998

A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Leucotrichia Mosely, 1934 (Hydroptilidae, Leucotrichiinae)
By Robin E. Thomson, Ralph W. Holzenthal
ZooKeys, 2015
Free Here:
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5134

Revised checklist of the caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) of West Virginia
By Tarter M.A., Floyd D.C.
Ent. News 126: 175-190, 2016

New Record And Range Extension For Anisocentropus pyraloides (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae) from West Virginia
By Tarter, D.C.; Wilhelm, E.S.; Bailey, J.E.; Nowlin, M.K.
Entomological News, 107: 243-244, 1996
Available online here.

Distributional checklist of Nearctic Trichoptera (2022 revision)
By Rasmussen A.K., Morse J.C.
FAMU, Tallahassee. 519 pp., 2023

A Review of the Adults and Larvae of the Genus Pycnopsyche (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) with Revision of the Pycnopsyche...
By Wojtowicz, J.A.
PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 1982
full title: A Review of the Adults and Larvae of the Genus Pycnopsyche (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) with Revision of the Pycnopsyche scabripennis (Rambur) and Pycnopsyche lepida (Hagen) Complexes

unpublished doctoral dissertation

link to entry in U of Tennessee graduate dissertation catalog
PDF here

Order Trichoptera. In: Thorp J., Rogers D.C. (Eds.) Ecology and general biology: Thorp and Covich's freshwater invertebrates
By Holzenthal R.W., Thomson R.E., Ríos-Touma B.
Academic Press, 965–1002, 2015