**Female Psychoglypha alascensis (Snow Sedge) Caddisfly Adult Pictures**

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

» Class Insecta (Insects)

» Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies)

» Family Limnephilidae (Northern Caddisflies)

» Genus Psychoglypha (Snow Sedges)

» Species alascensis (Snow Sedge)

This specimen was 22 mm.

This caddisfly was collected from Mystery Creek #178 on September 15th, 2013 and added to Troutnut.com on September 23rd, 2013.

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Female Psychoglypha alascensis (Snow Sedge) Caddisfly Adult from Mystery Creek #178 in Idaho

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AuthorEntoman

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Snow Sedge 14 Replies »

Posted by Entoman on Sep 23, 2013

Last reply on Sep 26, 2013 by Crepuscular

There were enough of these flitting around in the evening to keep the fish looking up. Anglers can easily confuse these with Dicosmoecus species (October Caddis) at this time of year, but their wings are quite different and they like gentler flows.

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