Abstract
Rhyacophilidae Stephens, 1836, is a relatively large family revised by Schmid (1970). The family is predominantly north temperate, found in North America, Europe and Asia (Holzenthal et. al. 2007). The genus Rhyacophila contains 801 species globally; among these, 375 species have been recorded from the Oriental Region and 148 species occur in India (Morse, 2012). For the identification of species the works by Armitage & Arefina (2003), Kimmins (1952, 1953, 1964), Kiss (2003, 2011a, 2011b), Malicky (1995a, 1995b, 1997), Malicky & Chantaramongkol (1993), Malicky & Prommi (2006), Malicky & Sun (2002), Martynov (1927a, 1927b, 1930, 1935), Morton (1900), Schmid (1959, 1970) and Sun & Yang (1998) were used.
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