A catalogue of Japanese Trichoptera
28. Family Beraeidae Wallengren

Author: Takao NOZAKI
E-mail: takao.nozaki[AT]nifty.com
Last updated: Mar. 1, 2008

Subfamily Beraeinae Wallengren

Only the genus Nippoberaea Botosaneanu et al. is known from Japan.

Genus Nippoberaea Botosaneanu, Nozaki and Kagaya

A single species, Nippoberaea gracilis (Nozaki and Kagaya), belongs to this genus.

Nippoberaea gracilis (Nozaki and Kagaya 1994)

Ernodes gracilis Nozaki and Kagaya 1994, 193-200, male, female, pupa, larva, case, habitat, Honshu (Chiba, Tokyo, Osaka).
Nozaki et al. 1994, 300.
Nippoberaea gracilis: Botosaneanu, Nozaki and Kagaya 1995, 180-183, male, larva, pupa, case, new genus.
Morita 1996, 288, Honshu (Mie).
Kagaya et al. 1998, 31, 71, 231, Honshu (Tokyo).
Maruyama and Takai 2000, 132, photo 2-43, adult, larva, case, Honshu (Tokyo), Shikoku (Kochi).
Nozaki 2004, 1238, Honshu (Kanagawa).
Taira and Kuranishi 2004, 78, 82, larval habitat, Honshu (Chiba).
Katsuma 2005, 9, Honshu (Ibaraki)
Nozaki 2005, 559, male, female, larva.
Katsuma 2006, 41, Honshu (Ibaraki).
Morita 2007, 15, Honshu (Mie).
Type locality. Honshu (Tokyo).
Distribution. Honshu (central), Shikoku.
Remarks. Although Akagi (1957) provided illustrations of male genitalia as a brachycentrid species, Micrasema sp. MA (=M. hanasensis Tsuda), the male is this species (Nozaki et al. 1999).

References

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Kagaya, T., Nozaki, T. & Kuranishi, R. B. (1998) Fauna and distribution of Trichoptera in the Tama-River system. In Katagiri, K. (Ed.) Fauna and Distribution of Trichoptera in the Tama-River System, Tokyu Foundation for Better Environment, Tokyo, pp. 1-266, [in Japanese].
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