Limnephilus affinis
Length 9 to 13 mm. A rather greyish brown caddis with a very dark wing stigma.
Still or slow moving water, even temporary water sources. This species inhabits both fresh and salt water lakes and pools. It is able to tolerate low levels of salinity by regulating the salt in the blood and is sometimes common on salt marshes.
April to June and August to October with summer diapause.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
27 May 2012
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
03 October 2011
female
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
25 September 2011
female
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
24 October 2011
Karaokeking19
Broughton Astley Garden
14 September 2023
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Caddisflies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Trichoptera
- Family:
- Limnephilidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 21
- First record:
- 25/09/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 04/10/2024 (Graves, Hazel)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
25 September 2011
female
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
03 November 2011
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
24 October 2011
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
05 June 2013
male - specimen examined
Karaokeking19
Broughton Astley Garden
14 September 2023
Hazel Graves
Loughborough Garden
25 September 2023
Elspeth Cranston
Shepshed Garden
12 April 2022
