Molanna angustata
Length 9 to 15 mm. This is a plain slightly orangey-brown caddis fly which has an odd resting position at times, with the body parallel to the surface but wings raised at an angle of about 30 degrees and more tightly rolled than in M. albicans.
Molanna albicans.
Ponds, lakes, canals and slow rivers.
The adults are seen from May to September.
The larvae are found in sandy-bottomed lakes and slow rivers and streams.
Fairly frequent and widespread in England and a few records from Wales.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
11 August 2011
specimen examined - came to light
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
30 May 2011
came to light
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
11 August 2011
specimen examined - came to light
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Caddisflies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Trichoptera
- Family:
- Molannidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 24
- First record:
- 30/05/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 24/08/2023 (Graves, Hazel)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
30 May 2011
came to light
egaten
Thurlaston garden
18 August 2021
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
09 August 2015
