Coordenação de Pós-Graduação, COPOG, Divisão do Curso em Entomologia, DiEnt, Lab de Citotaxonomia e Insetos Aquáticos, LACIA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
Programa de Iniciação Científica, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
Neotrop Entomol. 2021 Jun;50(3):430-443. doi: 10.1007/s13744-021-00860-8. Epub 2021 Mar 19.
After 100 years of its description, the morphological circumscription of Smicridea aequalis Banks, 1920 is provided in this study by the integration of morphological characters of adult, pupal, and larval stages. This fact facilitates its recognition in faunal inventory studies and allows its use in biomonitoring programs, mainly in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes, two biodiversity hotspots where this species is widely distributed. Adults of S. aequalis may have diurnal activity as they are found frequently and abundantly on the riparian vegetation of fast-flowing streams and rivers during the day. The remarkable color dimorphism observed in males of this species was not reported previously for caddisflies.
在描述了 100 年后，本研究通过整合成虫、蛹和幼虫阶段的形态特征，提供了 Smicridea aequalis Banks, 1920 的形态学界限。这一事实便于在动物区系调查研究中识别该物种，并允许将其用于生物监测计划，特别是在亚马逊和塞拉多生物群系，这两个生物多样性热点地区该物种分布广泛。S. aequalis 的成虫可能具有昼行性，因为它们在白天经常大量出现在快速流动的溪流和河流的河岸植被上。本种雄虫显著的颜色二型性以前在石蛾科中没有报道过。
