View source for Phil Bendle Collection:Caddisfly nymph) Netspinning Caddisflies

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'''Kingdom:''' Animalia<br />
'''Phylum:''' Arthropoda<br />
'''Subphylum:''' Hexapoda<br />
'''Class:''' Insecta<br />
'''Subclass:''' Pterygota (caddisflies)<br />
'''Order:''' Trichoptera<br />
'''Suborder:''' Annulipalpia<br />
'''Superfamily:''' Hydropsychoidea<br />
'''Family:''' Hydropsychidae<br />
'''Genus:''' Aoteapsyche<br />
'''Common name:''' Netspinning Caddis nymph, Caseless caddis nymph

The Aoteapsyche is a genus consisting of net-spinning caddisflies. They are common among streams, and a few species occupy the shorelines of freshwater lakes. The larvae of the Aoteapsyche construct nets at the open ends of their dwellings which are responsible for their &quot;net-spinning caddisfly&quot; common name.

'''Known predators of the Aoteapsyche species are:'''<br />
Salmo trutta (Brown trout)<br />
Archichauliodes diversus (nymph of toe-biter dobsonfly)<br />
Gobiomorphus breviceps (upland bully)<br />
Costachorema xanthoptera (free-living caddis)<br />
Megaleptoperla (Stoneflies)<br />
Polyplectropus puerilis (nymphs of tube maker caddisflies)<br />
Stenoperla prasinia (nymph of the large green stonefly)<br />
Anguilla dieffenbachia (longfin eel)<br />
Galaxias depressiceps (Flathead galaxias)<br />
Galaxiidae (Whitebait and mudfish)<br />
Galaxias (small freshwater fish)<br />
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An adult caddisfly in the Genus Aoteapsyche<br />
[http://ketenewplymouth.peoplesnetworknz.info/image_files/0000/0011/3333/1_Caddisfly__Genus_Aoteapsyche.__2_.__2_.JPG] 

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