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Updated 1 June 2009
NotesSynonymized or merged with Rhyacophila brunnea by Smith and Manuel (1984).LinksOn this website:Rhyacophila brunnea Introduction to Rhyacophila Other Websites: University of Alberta Entomology Collection Species page Has illustration of male genitalia, description, habitat information, range and more. ReferencesBanks, N. 1914. American Trichoptera- notes and descriptions. Canadian Entomologist 46:149-156, 201-204, 252-258, 261-268.
 Peckarsky,Barbara L; Dodson,Stanley I; Conklin,Don J 1985 A key to the aquatic insects of streams in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, including chironomid larvae from streams and ponds. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver CO. 47 pages. They include R. acropedes in a larval key. Possibly really R. brunnea. Smith,SD 1968 The Rhyacophila of the Salmon river drainage of Idaho with special reference to larvae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61 3, 655-674. Has a key to larvae that includes R. acropedes, which we now know as R. brunnea. However the author could not distinguish R. acropedes from the larvae of R. vao. Smith SD and KL Manuel 1984 Reconsideration of the nearctic species of the Rhyacophila acropedes subgroup based on adults (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae). In Proc. Fourth Int. Symp. Trichoptera, JC Morse, ed Dr. W. Junk, The Hague. Synonymizes R. acropedes as Rhyacophila brunnea. |