“…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.…”