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TroutnaboutNovember 27th, 2006, 9:52 pm
Posts: 20can anyone identify this caddisfly and the green leaves used in the home construction?
TroutnaboutNovember 27th, 2006, 9:59 pm
Posts: 20Sorry about my last post. I couldn't figure out how to add a picture attachment. The original photograph is at flyfishing entemology.com. the pictue is titled caddis home.
TaxonNovember 27th, 2006, 10:14 pm
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Mercer Island, WA

Posts: 921
Sorry about my last post. I couldn't figure out how to add a picture attachment. The original photograph is at flyfishing entemology.com. the pictue is titled caddis home.


Troutabout-

If you are referring to FlyfishingEntomology.com, I'm not aware of any file titled caddis home on my site. However, I did Google/Images "caddis home" and found the following photo from Michelle Mahood's gallery: http://www.pbase.com/michellemahood/image/24877105

Is that the photo?
Roger Rohrbeck
www.FlyfishingEntomology.com
TroutnaboutNovember 27th, 2006, 10:33 pm
Posts: 20roger that's it. sorry about the incomplete info.
TaxonNovember 27th, 2006, 10:51 pm
Site Editor
Mercer Island, WA

Posts: 921		Troutabout-

No problem. I would guess the photo is of a cased Platycentropus larva. As to which species of leaf was used in construction of the case, that question will need be answered by someone else.
Roger Rohrbeck
www.FlyfishingEntomology.com
TroutnaboutNovember 27th, 2006, 11:00 pm
Posts: 20Roger:you are the man! Thanks for your timely responses. I entered a fly swap challege and was given green artificial lei flowers,tan jute and some black yarn to tie with. I just tied two of them and wanted to know what they imitated. Is this a common species? Where in the US are they found besides CA ?
TroutnutNovember 27th, 2006, 11:06 pm
The Admin
Fairbanks, AK

Posts: 2021		FYI I just moved this topic to the Platycentropus comments based on Roger's ID guess. :)
Jason Neuswanger
The Troutnut
TaxonNovember 27th, 2006, 11:30 pm
Site Editor
Mercer Island, WA

Posts: 921
Roger:you are the man!


Troutabout-

Well, that stands to be seen. There are others on this site who know much more about caddisflies than do I. As to where they are found, to the best of my knowledge, only in the East and Midwest, where "they are able to thrive in a in a wide variety of habitats, including stillwaters and warmwaters" per Gary LaFontaine.
Roger Rohrbeck
www.FlyfishingEntomology.com
LitobranchaDecember 5th, 2006, 9:28 am
Knoxville TN

Posts: 51		Schmid lists Platycentropus radiatus from Nova Scotia to Manitoba, my records also include AL GA NC SC TN VA northward. don't have records on P. amicus or P. indistinctus but Schmid lists amicus from Quebec to Alberta and indistinctus from Newfoundland to Ontario. all three are as others have said are distributed in the eastern half of the continent so I'll chime and say I bet that ain't Platycentropus from CA. but the prosternal horn character is the one to look for.

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