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Presented at the NABS Annual meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2004
in Systematics
A new species of Ceraclea (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) from North Carolina
J.B. Glover1 and J.C. Morse2. 1The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, SC 29201, 2Clemson University, Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences, 114 Long Hall, Box 340365, Clemson, SC 29634
While conducting a water quality survey of Panther Town Creek, Jackson County, North Carolina, staff from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources collected Trichoptera larvae belonging to the genus Ceraclea Stephens that did not fit well with descriptions of any known species in this genus. Return visits to the site yielded pupae and larvae that were reared to adults and it was determined that this species is new to science. The larvae of this species builds a case composed of sand grains and is dorsoventrally flattened with lateral expansions, similar to the cases of those species in the Ceraclea riparia Group Morse. The mesonotal bars of the larvae, however, differ from those of the known species in this group. Based on the adult male genitalia, this species belongs to the Ceralea annulicornis Group Morse. The larvae were firmly attached to the undersurface of the few rocks that were found in this sandy-bottom stream. They were also recovered from the surface of bedrock in slow flowing water. Late instar larvae were collected in November and this species probably overwinters in its final instar. Pupae were collected in early April with adults emerging in the laboratory in late April.
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