Agraylea sexmaculata
A mottled brown micro caddis with a rather pointed wing shape.
Plant thickets in lakes, ponds and slow running water.
Summer and autumn.
Fairly frequent in central and southern England, scarcer elsewhere.
Uncommon or under recorded in VC55 - Sapcote record of 31.8.2011 is thought to be only the second record for this species in Leicestershire and Rutland, the first being from Stoneygate in 1981.
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
01 June 2014
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
08 August 2014
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
31 August 2011
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
01 September 2011
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
10 September 2015
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
07 September 2012
female - specimen examined
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Caddisflies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Trichoptera
- Family:
- Hydroptilidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 22
- First record:
- 31/08/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 23/08/2022 (Cranston, Elspeth)
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