Micropterna lateralis
Length 14 to 18 mm. A fairly large uniformly orange-brown caddis fly with some paler speckling.
Micropterna sequax.
Around ditches and temporary streams.
Adult: Late May to August. It is attracted to light.
Breeds in ditches and streams that dry up over summer. It lays before the water vanishes and the species passes the summer as newly hatched larvae in the damp bottom.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
11 June 2013
male - specimen examined
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Caddisflies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Trichoptera
- Family:
- Limnephilidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 06/05/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 11/06/2013 (Calow, Graham)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote
11 June 2013
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
06 May 2011
specimen examined - came to light
