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Caddisfly Species Hesperophylax designatus (Silver Striped Sedge)

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Regions: East, Midwest, West

This species is abundant nationwide. It was once considered to be an East/Midwest species, but a widespread western species Hesperophylax incisus is now considered to be a synonym (Synonym: A former name of a taxon, usually a species. Entomologists frequently discover that two insects originally described as different species are one in the same, and they drop one of the names. The dropped name is said to be a synonym of the remaining name. These changes take a while to trickle into the common knowledge of anglers; for example, Baetis vagans is now a synonym of Baetis tricaudatus.) of designatus.


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