Trichoptera

Rogers, D. Christopher & Cruz-Rivera, Edwin, 2021, A preliminary survey of the inland aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Journal of Natural History 55 (13 - 14), pp. 799-850 : 830

Trichoptera

The caddisflies are well represented in the Caribbean, but not in the Virgin Islands. Some ten families are known from Puerto Rico ( Gutiérrez-Fonsec et al. 2013). Oxyethira janella Denning, 1948 is reported from St. Thomas, and Botosaneanu (1973) reported immature ‘ Hydroptilidae g. sp.’, from St. Thomas, which are probably young larvae of either Ochrotrichia or Hydroptila ( Botosaneanu 2002) . Members of the genera Atopsche (Hydrobioscidae), Campsiophora and Cariboptila (Glossosomatidae) , Alisotrichia , Hydroptila , Kumanskiella , Leucotrichia , Metrichia , Neotrichia , Ochrotrichia , and Oxyethira (Hydroptilidae) , Chimarra (Philopotamidae) , Xiphocentron (Xiphocentridae) , Leptonema , Macronema , and Smicridea (Hydropsychidae) , Antillopsyche , Cernotina , and Polycentropus (Polycentropodidae) , Phylloicus (Calamoceratidae) , and Nectopsyche and Oecetis (Leptoceridae) , all have representatives in Puerto Rico, and thus, may be found in the US Virgin Islands at some point in the future ( Botosaneanu 2002). We encountered only one caddisfly specimen.