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TRICHOPTERA (caddisflies)
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Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota Neoptera Holometabola 500 400 300 200 100 0
Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Entognatha Archaeognatha Hexapoda Zygentoma Ephemeroptera Insecta Odonata Plecoptera Embiodea Pterygota Zoraptera Dermaptera Grylloblattodea ? Mantophasmatodea Orthoptera Phasmatodea Blattaria Isoptera Mantodea Neoptera Psocoptera Phthiraptera Thysanoptera Hemiptera Coleoptera Rhaphidioptera Megaloptera Neuroptera Hymenoptera Holometabola Mecoptera Siphonaptera Diptera Strepsiptera Trichoptera Lepidoptera
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Hexapod Orders Trichoptera Tricho - hair, ptera - wing
Number of Species 11,500 Common names caddisflies Typical habitats Larvae - aquatic, adults - aerial Distinguishing characteristics -wings with hairs Most larvae build cases Other features
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Trichoptera adults
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Trichoptera - Adults Haustellum - fused hypopharynx & labium
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Trichoptera - Adults
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 1. Retreat makers (net spinners) 2. Free living 3. Saddle case makers 4. Purse case makers 5. Tube case makers
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 1. Retreat makers (net spinners) Hydropsychidae
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 1. Retreat makers (net spinners) Hydropsychidae
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Hydropsychidae – Sound production
Scraper File
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 2. Free living Rhyacophilidae
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 3. Saddle case makers
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 4. Purse case makers Hydroptilidae
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 5. Tube case makers
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Trichoptera Ecological Division of Larval Types 5. Tube case makers
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All larvae are apneustic
Respiratory adaptations All larvae are apneustic (no open spiracles)
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Trichoptera - Phylogeny
Net spinners Free living Tortoise case makers Purse case makers Tube case makers
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Respiratory adaptations
Abdominal Gills
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Evoutionary change in Trichoptera
Evolved in cool streams Move to lentic water Cool streams Warm streams Lentic water Temporary ponds (100% of families) (95% of families) (50% of families) (17% of families) O2 Stress
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Habitat Differentiation
Limnephilidae Leptoceridae Rhyacophilidae Hydropsychidae
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