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INFLUENCE OF WATER CURRENT ON CASE WEIGHT IN LARVAE OF THE CADDISFLY, GOERA CALCARATA BANKS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Dwight A. Webster  and
Priscilla C. Webster
Dwight A. Webster
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Limnology and Fisheries, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Priscilla C. Webster
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Limnology and Fisheries, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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The larvae of certain Trichoptera are known to fashion into their cases structures to which a “ballast” function has been ascribed (Stuck, 1900; Buchner, 1905; Rousseau, 1921; Lloyd. 1921; Needham and Lloyd, 1937). Of forms living in the Ithaca, New York, region the cases of Stenophylax scabripennis, Halesus guttifer, Neophylax, and Goera calcarata are offered as examples. The term “ballast” has been used to imply a balancing as well as a weighting purpose depending upon the particular species under discussion. Rousseau (1921) in describing the general types of caddis cases says “…. in the absence of current, they (the cases) do not in general offer such adaptations as those which we find in the larvae living in moving water.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 75 , Issue 6 , June 1943 , pp. 105 - 108
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1943

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