Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 123 1967 Number 3619 



Studies of Neotropical Caddis Flies, V 

 Types of the Species Described by Banks and Hagen 



By Oliver S. Flint, Jr. 



Curator, Division of Neuropteroids 



Nathan Banks, who described his first Neotropical species in 1900 

 and his last in 1941, was one of the most prolific workers on Latin 

 American Trichoptera. He described 94 species from South and 

 Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies in 13 publications. 

 Unfortunately, like many other workers of his time, he frequently 

 did not figure the genitalia, and, when he did, he did not clear and 

 relax this structure before preparing his figures. Thus, our attempts 

 to recognize many of his species have been handicapped severely. 

 Essentially the same situation exists with Hagen's six Neotropical 

 species. 



Very fortunately for North American workers, the types of all 

 these species, save one, are located in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Harvard University. I have been able to study all of 

 this material and to make notes and sketches of the genitalia for 

 most species. Although Banks very rarely possessed mixed type 

 series, I am designating lectotypes in this paper for all species for which 

 a syntypic series exists. Herein are given, with a few exceptions, 



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