British Insects: the Families of Trichoptera
British Insects: the Families of Trichoptera |
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This data set is generated from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993). It currently comprises a preliminary, interactive treatment to family level of the adults and larvae, based on descriptions prepared mainly from Mosely’s (1939) account and Hickin’s (1952) keys, supplemented from Mosely and Kimmins (1953) and the usual textbooks; but with expert input, it could readily be improved and extended to the genera and species, and also (cf. Hickin, 1952) to the pupae. The nomenclature is aligned with the Steel et al. (1964) update of the Kloet and Hincks Check List.
The original intention of the ‘British Insects’ suite of packages, of which it forms part, was primarily to present scans of the fine hand-coloured engravings of insects in John Curtis’s British Entomology: illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland (1824–1840). The first 12 volumes of the first edition (up to 1835) were directly available to us, and pages issued from 1836–1840 have been accessed from other sources (see Notes on John Curtis’s British Entomology). Curtis is credited with the original taxonomic descriptions of 7 of the Caddis Fly genera and 37 of the species recognised in modern checklists, many of which can be seen in the scans accompanying this data set; and the description of Agrypnia pagetana (see B. Ent. 540) contains generic keys to the larvae and adults. The latter, which Curtis attributes to M. Pictet, utilizes several of the characters featuring prominently in modern classifications and keys.