A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)

A revision of the microcaddisfly genus Ascotrichia (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) is provided, including a generic diagnosis, illustrations, and descriptions of males. This genus is endemic to the Neotropical region and has been recorded from countries in northern South America. Adults of the genus ar...

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Autor principal: Thomson, Robin E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Entomology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497406
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7560
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description A revision of the microcaddisfly genus Ascotrichia (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) is provided, including a generic diagnosis, illustrations, and descriptions of males. This genus is endemic to the Neotropical region and has been recorded from countries in northern South America. Adults of the genus are notable within the family for the contrasting black and green hairs on the forewings. A total of six species are treated, three described as new: Ascotrichia adirecta sp. n. (Brazil), A. hystricosa sp. n. (Brazil), and A. simoma sp. n. (Brazil).
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spelling pubmed-67073452019-09-06 A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) Thomson, Robin E. PeerJ Entomology A revision of the microcaddisfly genus Ascotrichia (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) is provided, including a generic diagnosis, illustrations, and descriptions of males. This genus is endemic to the Neotropical region and has been recorded from countries in northern South America. Adults of the genus are notable within the family for the contrasting black and green hairs on the forewings. A total of six species are treated, three described as new: Ascotrichia adirecta sp. n. (Brazil), A. hystricosa sp. n. (Brazil), and A. simoma sp. n. (Brazil). PeerJ Inc. 2019-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6707345/ /pubmed/31497406 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7560 Text en © 2019 Thomson https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)
title A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)
title_full A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)
title_fullStr A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)
title_full_unstemmed A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)
title_short A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Ascotrichia Flint, 1983 (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)
title_sort revision of the neotropical caddisfly genus ascotrichia flint, 1983 (trichoptera, hydroptilidae)
topic Entomology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497406
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7560
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