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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Caddisflies (Trichoptera) » Integripalpia » Plenitentoria » Phryganeoidea » Giant Casemaker Caddisflies (Phryganeidae) » Agrypnia » Agrypnia vestita
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Caddisfly - Agrypnia vestita
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Caddisfly - Agrypnia vestita
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
February 16, 2009
Size: 30mm case
Identified by Don Chandler from specimens.
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Contributed by tom murray on 5 March, 2009 - 3:51pm
Last updated 9 March, 2009 - 6:16pm

If you
do have a photo, do it. The cases will look the same, but there will be a dark median line on the head, like in Ptilo*stomis.
… Donald S. Chandler, 9 March, 2009 - 6:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Other photo added
Just want to make sure these are the other ones you mentioned. I thought there were only 2 different species in the batch, but you identified 4 different ones. Goes to show that it doesn't take much to make it a different species.
… tom murray, 9 March, 2009 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

Thanks Don
Do you think I should post a picture of the other one too?
… tom murray, 9 March, 2009 - 6:16pm login or register to post comments

Agrypnia vestita
I think. I noticed that the specimen in this photo lacked the median dark line when you posted it, which makes it most likely A. vestita. In looking at your specimens I had concluded they were not vestita, but I hadn't realized two species were present. Of the four specimens of Agrypnia in your sample the first three are another species of this genus (with a median dark line), and the single one you photographed was a different species! I can't identify the other one beyond genus.
… Donald S. Chandler, 9 March, 2009 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

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