Contribuição ao estudo dos Trichoptera Kirby, 1813, na Represa dos Ciganos, Rio de Janeiro, baseada em larvas, pupas e casas (Insecta)

Abstract

Excluding the very old and the most important brazilian paper about Trichoptera written by MÜLLER (1880), these insects were only objects of foreign researchers, and the latest of them is FLINT, who estirnated (1981a) that only a third of brazilian imago caddisflies were described. There are about fourty cases and half-dozen of imnature brazilian stages described, since their identification needs the knowledge of the larva-pupa-imago ecloded under control. In order to study brazilian caddisflies it would have, obviously, to proceed a preliminary and a large bibliographical research. In the present essay of about fifteen estimated genera from Ciganos' Dam, nine could be identified with certainty and are given, of them, descriptions and illustrations of the larvae and, when found, of the pupae and cases. All the material came from Ciganos's Dam, Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, and from the lotic streams of the mountains that exist in it.