Ochrotrichia provosti Blickle, 1961
Provost's ochrotrichian caddisfly, Provost’s somber caddisfly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Rasmussen et al., 2008:i,17; NatureServe, 2026)
Last (and only) record: 12 July 1957 (Rasmussen et al., 2008:17; NatureServe, 2026 [as July 1957])
Distribution & Habitat
Temple Terrace, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Blickle, R. L. (1961). New species of Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera). Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 56: 131-134.
Other references:
Blickle, R. L. (1962). Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera) of Florida. Florida Entomol. 45: 153-155.
Blickle, R. L. (1979). Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera) of America north of Mexico. New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, University of New Hampshire, Bulletin 509. 97 pp.
Denning, D. G. and Blickle, R. L. (1972). A review of the genus Ochrotrichia (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65: 141-151.
Herrig, Jim and Shute, Peggy. (2002). Aquatic Animals and their Habitats, pp. 537-580. In: Wear, David N. and Greis, John G. (eds.). (2002). Southern forest resource assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-53. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 635 pp.
Morse, John C. (1982). Trichoptera, pp. 51-71. In: Franz, R. (ed.). Invertebrates. Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida, vol. 6 (P.C.H. Pritchard, series editor). University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 131 pp.
Morse, John C. (1994). Caddisflies (Class Insecta: Order Trichoptera) (with Introduction by M. Deyrup), pp. 501-569. In: M. Deyrup and R. Franz, editors, Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida, Volume IV: Invertebrates. (R.E. Ashton, Jr., Series Editor) University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 798 pp.
NatureServe. (2026). Ochrotrichia provosti: Provost's Ochrotrichian Caddisfly. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 4 October 2026]
Pescador, M. L., Rasmussen, Andrew K. and Harris, Steven C. (1995). Identification manual for the caddisfly (Trichoptera) larvae of Florida. Report to the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida, contract numbers WM543 and WM581. 132 pp.
Pescador, M. L., Rasmussen, Andrew K. and Harris, Steven C. (2004). Identification manual for the caddisfly (Trichoptera) larvae of Florida. Revised Edition. Report to the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida, contract numbers WM715. 136 pp.
Rasmussen, Andrew K., Denson, D. R. and Harris, Steven C. (2008). Status of caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) in greatest conservation need in Florida. Final report to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida, Agreement 06009, June 1, 2008. 56 pp.
Rasmussen, Andrew K., Denson, Dana R., Orfinger, Alexander B. and Harris, Steven C. (2025). Diversity and distribution of the Trichoptera of Florida, United States, with descriptions of five new species. ZooKeys 1263: 389-439. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1263.147317
Rasmussen, Andrew K. and Morse, John C. (2020). Distributional checklist of Nearctic Trichoptera (Fall 2020 Revision). Florida A&M University, Tallahassee. 517 pp. [Available at: https://www.trichoptera.org/].
Rasmussen, Andrew K. and Morse, J. C. (2023). Distributional Checklist of Nearctic Trichoptera (2022 Revision). Florida A&M University, Tallahassee. 541 pp. [Available at: https://www.trichoptera.org]
Schweitzer, D. F. (1989). A review of category 2 Insecta in USFWS Regions 3, 4, 5. Report prepared for United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Newton Corner Regional Office, Newton Corner, MA, 150 pp.
Wiggins, G. B. (1977). Larvae of the North American caddisfly genera (Trichoptera). Univ. Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada. 401 pp.