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 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C, 



Volume 114 1963 Number 3473 



STUDIES OF NEOTROPICAL CADDIS FLIES, I: 

 RHYACOFHILIDAE AND GLOSSOSOMATIDAE (TRICHOPTERA) 



By Oliver S. Flint, Jr. 



Introduction 



The caddis flies of the Neotropical region, though quite numerous, 

 have received intermittent and often superficial attention. Ulmer 

 in 1913 published the first catalog of Neotropical Trichoptera; he 

 listed 162 species. Since then many species have been described, 

 notably by Navas, Banks, Mosely, and Schmid, and the names 

 available have probably trebled. There still remains much to be done 

 in providing figures adequate by present standards of many of the 

 species described before the mid-thirties, and in describing the many 

 species as 5^et unnamed. The immature stages are almost completely 

 un worked, although Ulmer and Miiller published some valuable 

 work on these stages around the turn of the century. It is hoped 

 that this series of papers will fill in some of these gaps in our knowledge 

 of all stages of the Neotropical Trichoptera. In this paper no 

 attempt has been made to discuss all the described species; only 

 those I have seen are treated. 



For convenience, I am defining the Neotropical region as the 

 part of North America south of the United States, South America, 

 and all the Antillean islands. This classification is admittedly not 



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