Temperature 97 



Light 100 



Current and soil 101 



Water bodies and biotopes inhabited by caddis flies 105 



Springs 105 



Running water 107 



Mountain streams and brooks (107). Foothill rivers and rivulets 

 with rapids (110). Large and small rivers of the plains (111). 



Reservoirs 116 



Stagnant water 118 



Lakes (118). Ponds (120). Puddles and ditches (121). 

 Importance of the stages of development for the systematics and 



phylogeny of Trichoptera 122 



Classification 122 



Phylogeny 143 



Economic importance 164 



Methods of collection, breeding and conservation 169 



Bibliography 174 



Systematic part 210 



Order Trichoptera 210 



Key to suborders 211 



I. Suborder Annulipalpia Martynov 211 



Key to families 212 



I. Superfamily Palaeochaetoidea Lepneva 214 



I. Family Rhyacophilidae Stephens 215 



II. Family Glossomatidae Wallengren 322 



III. Family Hydroptilidae Stephens 345 



IV. Family Philopotamidae Stephens 408 



V. Family Stenopsychidae Martynov 423 



VI. Family Psychomyiidae Kolenati 440 



II. Superfamily Neochaetoidea Lepneva 465 



VII. Family Ecnomidae Ulmer 465 



VIII. Family Polycentropodidae Ulmer 472 



IX. Family Arctopsychidae Martynov 528 



X. Family Hydropsy chid ae Curtis 543 



Alphabetic Index of Latin Names 628 



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