Parapsyche extensa

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King's Creek Parapsyche Caddisfly
(Parapsyche extensa)

Known from type locality and one site in California but likely not extant.

Single male specimen originally collected at Lassen Volcanic National Park, Kings Creek Meadows (7500 ft.), Lassen Co., California, but none since (see Denning, 1949; Erman and Nagana, 1992).

[Melanie]

Zootaxa Vol 4057, No 4 14 Dec. 2015

Parapsyche species (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae: Arctopsychinae) of western North America
DONALD R. GIVENS

Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity; Campus Delivery 1177;
Colorado State University; Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. E-mail: [e-mail]

Abstract
The adult female, pupa, and larva of the 5 western North American species of the arctopsychine genus Parapsyche—P. almota Ross 1938, P. elsis Milne 1936, P. extensa Denning 1949a, P. spinata Denning 1949b, and P. turbinata Schmid 1968—are reviewed. The female and larva of P. extensa are described for the first time. The larvae of P. spinata and P. turbinata are described for the first time. The chaetotaxy of the larval forms of western North American Parapsyche is discussed and scanning electron micrographs are presented. Keys to the females, known pupae, and larvae are provided. Distributional and biological data are also included.

Key words:
caddisfly taxonomy, description, chaetotaxonomy, larval keys


biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4057.4.1

[surroundx]

Brian Acord (California Department of Fish and Wildlife) informed me that this species has been rediscovered.

"The type specimen was collected by C.P. Alexander in 1947 from King's Creek Meadow, LVNP. Extensive collecting in LVNP in 2011 and 2012 did not yield specimens of adults or larvae of P. extensa from other streams within the Park. However, in 2013, adults and larvae were collected from several small tributaries of King’s Creek. In 2013, larvae were also collected from a small creek in the Hat Creek drainage, about 1.6 km up the trail to Paradise Meadow, LVNP (Givens 2014)."

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[koeiyabe]

web.archive.org/web/20111220134416/http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cnddb/pdfs/invert/Insects_-_Trichoptera/Parapsyche_extensa.pdf

This article (published by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife) indicates the last record was July 6, 1957, not 1947.

[koeiyabe]

explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.117536/Parapsyche_extensa