Oxyethira kingi Holzenthal & Kelley, 1983
King's cream and brown mottled microcaddisfly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (FNAI, 2007:5; NatureServe, 2026)
Last (and only) record: 21 July 1964 (Rasmussen et al., 2008:25; NatureServe, 2026 [as 1964])
Distribution & Habitat
Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA(?)
"Oxyethira kingi is known from only the type specimen, a single male collected in Miami Florida, Plant Inspection Station on July 21, 1964 (Holzenthal and Kelley 1983). It is a member of the Oxyethira santiagensis Group whose members are primarily South American in distribution. The fact that the specimen was collected at an inspection station suggests that the species accidentally entered the United States on cargo from the tropics."
(Rasmussen et al., 2008)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Holzenthal, Ralph W. and Kelley, Robert W. (1983). New micro-caddisflies from the southeastern United States (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae). The Florida Entomologist 66(4): 464-472. [Abstract]
Other references:
FNAI (Florida Natural Areas Inventory). (2007). Element-Level Changes over the Time Period 2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31. Unpublished report. 6 pp.
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. (1993). A checklist of the Trichoptera of North America, including Greenland and Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 119(1): 47-93. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25058246
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). Oxyethira kingi: King's Cream and Brown Mottled Microcaddisfly. 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. (2006). Caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) records from the Florida A&M University database.
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, John C. (2023). Distributional Checklist of Nearctic Trichoptera (2022 Revision). Florida A&M University, Tallahassee. 541 pp. [Available at: https://www.trichoptera.org]
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