BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Cheumatopsyche analis
A Caddisfly
| Scientific Name: | Cheumatopsyche analis (Banks, 1903) | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | A Caddisfly | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Clemson University Department of Entomology (J.C. Morse, ed.). 2002. Last Updated 5 September 2006. Trichoptera World Checklist. Online. Available: http://entweb.clemson.edu/database/trichopt/index.htm. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Invertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | TR-CHEANA | ||||||||||
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| Conservation Status / Legal Designation | |||||||||||
| Global Status: | G5 (Aug 2024) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S4S5 (Jul 2016) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Not Reviewed | ||||||||||
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| General Description: | |||||||||||
| Global Reproduction Comments: | In an urban stream in Virginia, this species produces clear winter and spring-early summer generations as well as one or more additional, partial generation later in the summer (Alexander and Smock 2005). | ||||||||||
| Migration Characteristics: (Global / Provincial) | |||||||||||
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Nonmigrant: Local Migrant: Distant Migrant: Within Borders Migrant: |
Y / N N / N N / N na / N |
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| Global Habitat Comments: | This species is found in flowing water in creeks and rivers as well as some lakes (Myers et al. 2011; Houghton 2016; SCAN 2024). | ||||||||||
| Food Habits: |
Detritivore:Immature
Non-nectar Sugar-feeder: Adult |
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| Global Food Habits Comments: | Adults of this taxon consume liquid with sponge-like mouth parts and larvae of this species gather and consume detritus (Voshell 2002; Houghton and Holzenthal 2010). | ||||||||||
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| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
| Length(cm)/width(cm)/Weight(g): | / / | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | |||||||||||
| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | This species occurs across southern Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland and throughout the continental United States except for California and Arizona as well as in Hawaii (Rasmussen and Morse 2023; GBIF 2024; SCAN 2024; iNaturalist 2024). | ||||||||||
| Authors / Contributors | |||||||||||
| Global Information Author: | Cordeiro, J. (2009); rev. T. Cornelisse (2024) | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: | Aug 06, 2024 | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
Houghton, D.C. 2016. The caddisflies (Trichoptera) of an undisturbed Lower Michigan habitat. The Great Lakes Entomologist 49: 41-54. |
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Houghton, D.C. and R.W. Holzenthal. 2010. Historical and contemporary biological diversity of Minnesota caddisflies: a case study of landscape-level species loss and trophic composition shift. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29(2): 480-495. |
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Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN). 2024. A data portal built to visualize, manipulate, and export species occurrences. Online: http://scan-bugs.org/portal/index.php. Accessed 2024 |
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Please visit the website Conservation Status Ranks for definitions of the data fields used in this summary report.
Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2024. Species Summary: Cheumatopsyche analis. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 4, 2026).