Trichoptera: Limnephilidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoLenarchus fautini(Denning, 1949)Updated 21 February 2026
TSN 116366 This species has not been reported from our county yet. Good LinksOn this website:Introduction to Lenarchus Other Websites: Photos, Map, Taxon Identifier Numbers - from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Lenarchus fautini at GBIF Photos, Map, Museum specimens, DNA - Barcodinglife.org Description - University of Alberta Entomology Collection Species page Has a description, habitat information, range and more. ReferencesAl Mousa,MDA; Nachappa,P; Ruiter,DE; Givens,DR and Fairchild,MP 2022 Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) of montane and alpine lakes of northern Colorado (USA). Western North American Naturalist, 82(3), pp.563-576. PDFQuote from page 570: "Other broadly distributed Nearctic limnephilids encountered frequently were Psychoglypha subborealis (Banks, 1924), Asynarchus montanus, Nemotaulius hostilis (Hagen, 1873), Anabolia bimaculata (Walker, 1852), and Homophylax flavipennis Banks, 1900, whereas others were infrequently encountered (e.g., Lenarchus fautini and Limnephilus secludens Banks, 1914) or only encountered once (e.g., Limnephilus tarsalis and Limnephilus thorus) (see Supplementary Material 1)." Denning,DG 1949 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 44: 46-47. Described as Limnephilus fautini. Ross,HH and Merkley,DR 1952 An annotated key to the nearctic males of Limnephilus (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae). American Midland Naturalist 47:435-455. Has keys to identify North American adults. Schmid,F 1952 Le group de Lenarchus Mart. (Trichoptera, Limnoph.). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 25(3): 157-210. Also studies adults of Lenarchus. Zuellig,RE; Heinold,BD; Kondratieff,BC and Ruiter,DE 2012 Diversity and Distribution of Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, 1873-2010. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 606, 257 p. PDF - caution 46MB Quote from page 86: "Another rarely collected species with a single record known from the SPRB. Lenarchus larvae inhabit permanent and temporary high-elevation lakes and ponds (Wiggins, 1996)." The elevation of the one site they were found at is 9,300 feet and the adults were found in July. |