Diversity of Trichoptera emergence and their longitudinal distribution along streams in central Palawan, the Philippines

• Main Authors: Freitag, Hendrik, Mey, Wolfram
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Trichoptera; insect emergence; longitudinal zonation; river ecology; Palawan; Philippines; Animal Sciences; Biology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/biology-faculty-pubs/70; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=biology-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Trichoptera emergences were cumulatively collected from two rivers in central Palawan over 11 months by use of specially modified emergence traps. The quantitative samples were identified at species level. Fifty morphospecies, of which fifteen have been recently newly described, are recognized. The...