<strong>An amended checklist of the caddisflies of China (Insecta, Trichoptera)</strong>

Abstract

A new Chinese Trichoptera checklist includes 1267 described species in 116 genera and 30 families, each with a revised provincial distribution. Over the past 8 years, we have added 267 newly described species (or newly recorded species) to the trichopteran fauna of China from the old checklist of 1000 species in 110 genera and 28 families (Yang et al. 2005), among which nearly 80 new species to the Chinese fauna were contributed by various foreign taxonomists. This checklist also reports six newly recorded species from China: Diplectrona obscura Ulmer, Diplectrona aurovittata (Ulmer), Hydropsyche boreas Malicky &amp; Chantaramongkol, and Macrostemum hestia Malicky &amp; Chantaramongkol of family Hydropsychidae; Adicella paludicola Ito &amp; Kuhara of family Leptoceridae and Lannapsyche chantaramongkolae Malicky of family Odontoceridae. Psychomyia dactylina Sun 1997 is a synonym of Psychomyia martynovi Hwang 1957 and Chimarra bicuspidalis Sun 1998 is a synonym of Chimarra sadayu Malicky 1993. The species name of Cheumatopsyche pallida (Navás 1932) is a secondary junior homonym in the genus Cheumatopsyche, preoccupied by Cheumatopsyche pallida (Banks 1920). The new name for Ch. pallida will be published by Chang-hai Sun in a separate paper. Ecnomus orientalis Li &amp; Morse 1997 is a junior primary homonym of E. danielae orientalis Gibon 1992 and is renamed E. anhuiensis, nomen novum. Apatania mirabilis Martynov 1909 is transferred to Apatidelia as Apatidelia mirabilis (Martynov 1909), new combination.

Molecular phylogeny ofHimalopsyche(Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae)

“…The genus is relatively small, with 53 species described to date (Ross, ; Schmid & Botosaneanu, ; Schmid, ; Malicky, , , , ; Ghosh & Chaudhury, ; Tian & Sun, ; Sun & Yang, ; Mey, ; Malicky & Sun, ; Yang et al ., , ; Saini & Kaur, ). Revisionary and phylogenetic work on Himalopsyche was done by Ross (), Schmid & Botosaneanu () and Saini & Kaur (), all based on morphological evidence.…”

“…The family Rhyacophilidae is of Palaearctic origin and has its highest diversity in the Oriental region (de Moor & Ivanov, 2008). The predatory larvae of Himalopsyche occur in cold mountain streams with a rocky substrate, are free-roaming, and equipped with prominent abdominal gills and The genus is relatively small, with 53 species described to date (Ross, 1956;Schmid & Botosaneanu, 1966;Schmid, 1969;Malicky, 1971Malicky, , 1993Malicky, , 2011Malicky, , 2012Ghosh & Chaudhury, 1992;Tian & Sun, 1993;Sun & Yang, 1994;Mey, 1996;Malicky & Sun, 2002;Yang et al, 2005Yang et al, , 2016Saini & Kaur, 2011). Revisionary and phylogenetic work on Himalopsyche was done by Ross (1956), Schmid & Botosaneanu (1966) and Saini & Kaur (2011), all based on morphological evidence.…”

New Records of Caddisflies (Trichoptera) From Salair Ridge, West Siberia

“…Herein used taxonomy follows the Tichoptera World Checklist (Morse, 2019). The distribution of species is given according to literary data (Ivanov & Melnitsky, 2007;Ivanov, 2011;Zhong et al, 2012;Сhuluunbat et al, 2016;Kuranishi & Tanida, 2016;Pan'kov & Krasheninnikov, 2016;Smirnova et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2016;Zasypkina, 2016;Melnitsky & Ivanov, 2017;Loskutova & Rafikova, 2018;Morse, 2019). The main part of studied specimens is deposited in the collections of Novosibirsk State University.…”

A review of the genus Metalype Klapálek, with descriptions of three new species from China (Trichoptera, Psychomyiidae)

“…It has increased considerably since the 1980s, mostly due to the work of Chinese scientists. There were only 530 Chinese species known by 1990 (Yang et al 2005), but 1267 Chinese species were described by the middle of 2014 (Yang et al 2016). However, records of Psychomyiidae increased from 19 species to only 26 species in that interval; this number is relatively small compared to the number of Psychomyiidae species known from the Oriental and East Palearctic Regions (405 spp., Morse unpublished data) and from adjacent countries (e.g., 73 spp.…”

“…In Asia, Metalype species have been reported from Japan (Mey and Nozaki 2006, Nozaki and Nakamura 2007), Korea (Botosaneanu 1970), Nepal (Malicky 1995b), Pakistan (Schmid 1961), and Russia (Levanidova et al 1995), but not from China (Yang et al 2016); this apparent absence may have resulted from a lack of studies, or Metalype species are recognized in China as species of Psychomyia . For example, Psychomyia nithaiah Malicky, 2014 was described from Taiwan, but it is probably a Metalype species because it is very similar to Metalype uncatissima (Botosaneanu, 1970).…”