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Evolution Of Terrestrial Habitat In Manophylax Species (Trichoptera:Apataniidae), With A New Species From Alaska, Suvtsetseg Chuluumbat, John C. Morse, Joanna L. Lessard, M Eric Benbow, Matthew D. Wesener, John Hudson

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The genus Manophylax (Trichoptera:Apataniidae) contains 3 species from the Nearctic Region and 3 species from Japan. A 7th species of Manophylax new for science is described and illustrated from Alaska. Habitats of larvae and pupae of the different Manophylax species are either mostly hygropetric or mostly terrestrial. Phylogenetic analysis infers 3 principal species groups occurring in the eastern and western Nearctic and eastern Palearctic Biogeographic Regions. The habitat of the western Nearctic M. annulatus Species Group is mostly hygropetric and that of the eastern Nearctic M. altus and eastern Palearctic M. futabae Species Groups are mostly terrestrial. The phylogeny suggests …