THE ORIENTAL LEPIDOSTOMATIDAE (TRICHOPTERA) 
DESCRIBED BY BANKS AND HAGEN 1 
By John S. Weaver III 
The Department of Entomology 
The University of New Hampshire 
Durham, NH, 03824, USA. 
Introduction 
There are 14 Oriental and 1 eastern Palearctic (Japan) species of 
Lepidostomatidae described by Banks and Hagen (Fischer 1970). 
Unfortunately, the original descriptions of these species are not very 
useful for identification purposes today, because neither author 
relaxed and cleared the genitalia of these species. This technique 
reveals important characters of caddisfly genitalia and is now a 
standard method in Trichopterology. Hence, the redescription of 
these species is a desired prerequisite for further contributions to the 
Oriental lepidostomatids. Fortunately, syntypes of all these species 
have been located; most were at the Museum of Comparative Zool- 
ogy (MCZ), Harvard University, Massachusetts and a few were at 
the British Museum (Natural History), London. 
Banks and Hagen rarely indicated where all syntypes of their new 
species were deposited. Judging from the collection of Trichoptera 
at the MCZ, I infer they exchanged specimens, including syntypes, 
with their colleagues. Most of their syntypes are at the MCZ, but 
many are also in several other museums. For example, Ulmer (1951) 
mentioned that a few lepidostomatid types of Banks were in the 
“Museum Selangor” (probably the National Museum of Malaysia, 
Kuala Lumpur) and for this work I found male syntypes of two 
species only at the British Museum. 
Also, Banks and Hagen did not label unique species types as 
holotypes. Banks’ Trichoptera syntypes at the MCZ, that I have 
examined, have red type labels of two varieties. The first and older 
kind of label is glossy red obverse and white reverse, reading “Type” 
'Scientific Contribution Number 1350 from the New Hampshire Agriculture Experi- 
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