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Bug Of The Week

- KINGDOM Animalia

- SUBKINGDOM Eumetazoa

- PHYLUM Arthropoda

- SUBPHYLUM Hexapoda

- CLASS Insecta

- ORDER Trichoptera

- FAMILY Limnephilidae

- GENUS Limnephilus

- SPECIES rhombicus


Limnephilus rhombicus  (Imago  )


Most liklely found between



The L.rhombicus is characterized by the rhombus-shaped area in the middle of the front wing, between the two dark spots

Ventral view. This species is a widespread sedge that prefers slow flowing stream rich of weeds like chalk streams

Feeding apparatus, detail, ventral view

Thorax ventral view

Genitalia ventral view



dorsal view

Detail of the head, dorsal view