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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Caddisflies (Trichoptera) » Integripalpia » Brevitentoria » Leptoceroidea » Long-horned Caddisflies (Leptoceridae) » Mystacides » Black Dancer Caddisfly (Mystacides sepulchralis)
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Unknown Bug - Mystacides sepulchralis
Copyright © 2005 Michelle Lynn St.Sauveur

Unknown Bug - Mystacides sepulchralis
Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
July 4, 2005
Size: 1/2" body 3" antennae
Does anyone know what this insect is? This is taken super close-up with a 100mm macro lens.
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Contributed by Michelle Lynn St.Sauveur on 1 September, 2005 - 2:27am
Last updated 17 February, 2007 - 3:21pm

Moved
Moved from Mystacides.
… john and jane balaban, 17 February, 2007 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

Thank you
Thank you for your ID Robin!
… Michelle Lynn St.Sauveur, 1 September, 2005 - 4:48am login or register to post comments

Long-horned Caddisfly
family Leptoceridae, in the genus Mystacides. It might be M. sepulchralis (Black Dancer) but I don't know what the other two species in the genus look like, or whether they occur in your area. Maybe someone else can help?
… Robin McLeod, 1 September, 2005 - 4:12am login or register to post comments

 
M. sepulchralis
Only two species of Mystacides occur in the east and the other one has brownish wings. So this is M. sepulchralis for sure. And I think it's a female because males have red eyes. Infos found in F. Schmid book (1).
… Simon Carmichael, 29 September, 2006 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

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