Ceraclea albosticta (Hagen, 1861)
White-spotted long-horned caddisfly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Leptocerus albostictus Hagen, 1861 (original combination); Ceraclea sacca (Ross, 1938)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered or extant
One specimen was collected in July 2000 (Houghton, 2012). Two further specimens have since been reported from Michigan (Houghton et al., 2018).
Distribution
Great Lakes area (including Minnesota), North America
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hagen, H. A. (1861). Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America with a list of the South American species. Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections 4: 1-347.
Other references:
Houghton, David C. (2001). Updated Checklist of the Minnesota Caddisflies (Tricoptera) with Geographic Affinities. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127(4): 495-512.
Houghton, David C. et al. (2012). Biological diversity of the Minnesota caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera). ZooKeys 189: 1-389. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.189.2043
Houghton DC, DeWalt RE, Pytel AJ, Brandin CM, Rogers SE, Ruiter DE, Bright E, Hudson PL, Armitage BJ. (2018). Updated checklist of the Michigan (USA) caddisflies, with regional and habitat affinities. ZooKeys 730: 57-74. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.730.21776
Masteller, E. C. and Flint, O. S., Jr. (1979). Light trap and emergence trap records of caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the Lake Erie region of Pennsylvania and adjacent Ohio. The Great Lakes Entomologist 12(4): 165-177.
Masteller, E. C. and Flint, O. S., Jr. (1992). The trichoptera (Caddisflies) of Pennsylvania: an annotated checklist. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 66(2): 68-78.
Weaver, John S. III. (1993). The trichoptera of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Braueria 20: 33-50.
https://www.nynhp.org/documents/1/rare_animals_2017.pdf