**Caddisfly Species Mystacides sepulchralis (Black Dancer)**

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Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

» Class Insecta (Insects)

» Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies)

» Family Leptoceridae

» Genus Mystacides (Black Dancers)

» Species sepulchralis (Black Dancer)

Common Name

Match	Common Name
	Black Dancer

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Where & When

Regions: East, Midwest, West

Preferred Waters: Spring ponds and rivers

Larva & Pupa Biology

Current Speed: Still or slow

Pictures of 3 Caddisfly Specimens in the Species Mystacides sepulchralis:

Male Mystacides sepulchralis (Black Dancer) Caddisfly Adult

View 10 PicturesThis was one of many of its species which were gathered in small, low-flying swarms of about a dozen insects near the alder trees in the afternoon on a small stream.

Collected August 22, 2006 from the West Branch of Owego Creek in New York
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on August 23, 2006

Mystacides sepulchralis (Black Dancer) Caddisfly Adult

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Collected September 5, 2006 from the Neversink River in New York
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on October 3, 2006

Mystacides sepulchralis (Black Dancer) Caddisfly Adult

View 3 PicturesI captured this small caddisfly from one of many dense mating swarms under overhanging alder trees in a slow stretch of the river. There were localized rises of trout under the swarms.

Collected July 29, 2004 from the Bois Brule River in Wisconsin
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

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Caddisfly Species Mystacides sepulchralis (Black Dancer)

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**Caddisfly Species Mystacides sepulchralis (Black Dancer)**