Limnephilidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Trichoptera
Subordo: Integripalpia
Superfamilia: Limnephiloidea

Familia: Limnephilidae
Subfamiliae: Dicosmoecinae - Drusinae - Limnephilinae - Pseudostenophylacinae
Overview of genera

Montiphylax – ...
Genera incertae sedis

Alpopsyche - Manophylax - Moselyana - Pedomoecus
Name

Limnephilidae Kolenati 1848
References

Template:Kolenati, 1848

Flint Jr., O.S., 1982: Studies of Neotropical Caddisflies, XXX: Larvae of the Genera of South American Limnephilidae (Trichoptera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 355: 1–30. Full article: [1].
Ruiter, D.E. & Mutch, R.A. 2019. Montiphylax, (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae), a new genus to accommodate the western North American species: Stenophylax antennatus Banks, 1900, Philocasca thor Nimmo, 1971, and Philocasca alba Nimmo, 1977. Zookeys, 845: 153–180. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.845.31155 Reference page.
Waringer, J. & Malicky, H. 2016. The larvae of Micropterna coiffaiti Décamps 1963, Micropterna taurica Martynov 1917, and Potamophylax goulandriorum Malicky 1974 (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae), including a key to the hitherto known Stenophylacini larvae of the Hellenic western Balkan region. Zootaxa 4175(1): 43–56. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.4. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Waringer, J. & Malicky, H. 2019. The larvae of Limnephilus minos Malicky 1970 and Mesophylax impunctatus aduncus (Navás 1923) (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae), including a discriminatory matrix for the Greek limnephilid larvae with multifilament gills. Zootaxa 4612(2): 187–204. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.2.3 Paywall Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Northern Caddisflies
日本語: エグリトビケラ科

Limnephilidae is a family of caddisflies with about 100 genera. They belong to the main lineage of case-constructing caddisflies, the Integripalpia or tube-case caddisflies. The Limnephilidae is one of the most species-rich Trichoptera families of northern temperate regions, but only a few are known from tropical areas and the Southern Hemisphere. For this reason they are often known as northern caddisflies.
Description and ecology

The adults are usually brown in colour, often with narrow mottled or patterned forewings and much broader, transparent hindwings. The aquatic larvae construct portable cases from a wide variety of plant and mineral materials, sometimes even snail shells. Cases of young larvae often looking completely different from those of larger instars. Larvae tend to be eruciform (with a thickset head and thorax), rather slow-moving, and usually feed by browsing algae or scavenging animal remains. They pupate within the larval case, the pupa swimming to the surface before flying away as an adult. For most species the life cycle is completed within one year.

The family includes one extraordinary aberrant genus, Enoicyla, whose larvae are terrestrial, living among moss and leaf litter. The females of Enoicyla have only vestigial wings and are flightless.

Systematics
"Limnephilus elegans the Elegant Grannom", from British Entomology by John Curtis, c. 1840

The Limnephilidae are divided among the four subfamilies listed here (with some notable genera also given). A few genera are not presently assignable to subfamily.

Dicosmoecinae
Ironoquia
Drusinae
Drusus
Limnephilinae
Anabolia
Chaetopteryx
Enoicyla
Glyphotaelius
Limnephilus
Parachiona
Chilostigma
Pseudostenophylacinae
Aplatyphylax
Astenophylina
Astratodina
Phylostenax
Pseudostenophylax
Incertae sedis
Allomyia
Manophylax
Moselyana
Pedomoecus

References

Chinery, Michael Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe 1986 (Reprinted 1991)