Tiny Black Gold Speckled-Winged Caddisflies

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Scientific Name

Match	Scientific Name
	Dolophilodes distinctus

This common name refers to only one species.

Caddisfly Species Dolophilodes distinctus

These are pretty much always called Tiny Black Gold Speckled-Winged Caddisflies.

What a weird species is Dolophilodes distinctus. It emerges year-round, and the female adults in the winter do not have wings. In the summer they do, and in the spring there is a mix.

This is the most important species of Dolophilodes in the East and Midwest. It is never an intense emergence, but it may be present at times of the year when nothing else is available.

Dolophilodes distinctus (Tiny Black Gold Speckled-Winged Caddis) Caddisfly Larva

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Collected February 7, 2004 from in
Added to Troutnut.com by on January 25, 2006

Male Dolophilodes distinctus (Tiny Black Gold Speckled-Winged Caddis) Caddisfly Adult

View 6 PicturesThis caddis species was dancing high over the stream, spaced a foot or two apart across most of its width, very much like Ephemera mayfly spinners but with more side-to-side motion mixed in. There were more than enough to get the trout interested, but I wasn't able to stick around until they fell on the water (if they did at all).

Collected May 28, 2007 from in
Added to Troutnut.com by on June 4, 2007

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