Polycentropus flavomaculatus
Length 6 to 12 mm. A dark rather heavily speckled caddis.
Rivers and stony lakes. It may also be attracted to light.
May to September.
Larva spins a pouch shaped net in slow moving water.
Common and widespread in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
16 May 2014
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
08 August 2015
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
11 June 2013
female - specimen examined
Karaokeking19
Broughton Astley Garden
10 June 2023
Karaokeking19
Broughton Astley Garden
10 June 2023
Male genitalia
Karaokeking19
Broughton Astley Garden
22 May 2022
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Caddisflies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Trichoptera
- Family:
- Polycentropodidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 28
- First record:
- 02/06/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 10/06/2023 (Poole, Adam)
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