236 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS A CHECKLIST OF THE CADDISFLIES (TRICHOPTERA) FROM WEST VIRGINIA 1 Donald C. Tarter 2 ABSTRACT: County distributional records and dates of adult capture are provided for 176 species, representing 15 families and 60 genera, collected in West Virginia. Hydro-psychidae ranked first in number of species (39), followed by Limnephilidae (30), Lep-toceridae (27), Hydroptilidae (16), Rhyacophilidae (14), and Polycentropodidae (13); the other nine families accounted for 37 species. Of the species reported, 42 are new state records. The largest number of species (62) was collected in Pocahontas County. This paper represents the first checklist of caddisfiies for West Virginia. Ross (1944) listed 13 species for the state. Over the last two decades, several publications, including Applin and Tarter (1977), Hill et. al. (1977, 1978), Hill and Tarter (1978), Tarter and Hill (1979, 1982), Nugen and Tarter (1983), Tarter and Donahoe (1989), and Glover and Tarter (1989), have contributed additional records. The collection dates and records, based on adults unless otherwise mentioned, listed in this paper are a compilation of literature records, West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) and West Virginia University (WVU) specimens, unpublished records from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District (USCE), and individual collecting efforts by (Ralph Kirchner-(RFK) and Donald Tarter, West Virginia Benthological Survey, Marshall University (WVBS/MU). The purpose of this checklist is to provide a baseline for additional work on the West Virginia caddisfly fauna. One hundred and seventy-six species of caddisflies, representing 15 families and 60 genera, were recorded for West Virginia; 42 species are new state records (*). I followed the classification of Wiggins (1977). The following families in descending order contained caddisfly species: Hydropsychidae (39), Limnephilidae (30), Leptoceridae (27), Hydrop-tilidae (16), Rhyacophilidae (14), and Polycentropodidae (13) (Fig. 1). Nine additional families accounted for 37 species. Species records are listed for counties (Fig. 2). In descending order, the following counties contained the greater number of caddisfly species: Pocahontas (62), Randolph (54), Summers (45), Pendleton (47), Monroe (42), Kanawha (31), Jefferson (30), Braxton (28), Wayne (26), Hardy (22), Tucker (23), Hampshire (21 ), and Putnam (23). The remaining 36 counties contained at least one caddisfly record (Fig. 2). Numbers in parentheses at the end of each citation, corresponding with those in Figure 2, indicate the county records for the species. 1 Received February 7, 1990. Accepted April 20, 1990. ^ Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755. ENT. NEWS 101(4): 236-245, September & October, 1990
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