New Ecuadorian Trichoptera

Abstract

Seven species of caddisfly are described from small Andean streams in Ecuador: Atopsyche janethae sp.n., A. cajas sp.n., A chirimachaya sp.n., and A. catherinae sp.n. in the Rhyacophilidae; Mortoniella quinuas sp.n. in the Glossosomatidae; Oxyethira matadero sp.n. and Ochrotrichia (Metrichia) cuenca sp.n. in the Hydroptilidae. The larvae of three of the Atopsyche are also briefly described together with an additional but unassociated species.