<strong>Seven new species of <em>Chimarra</em> (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) from Malawi</strong>

EMMA WAHLBERG; MARIANNE ESPELAND; KJELL ARNE JOHANSON

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.10

Issue: Vol. 3796 No. 3: 20 May 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-05-20

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.10

Page range: 579–593

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**Seven new species of Chimarra (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) from Malawi**

EMMA WAHLBERG⁺⁻
MARIANNE ESPELAND⁺⁻
KJELL ARNE JOHANSON⁺⁻

Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden. Department of Zoology, University of Stockholm, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden

Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.

taxonomy caddisflies Afrotropical insect morphology species biodiversity

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Abstract

For the first time species of caddisflies in the genus Chimarra Stephens 1829 are reported from Malawi. The following new species are described: Chimarra zombaensis, C. flaviseta, C. chichewa, C. circumverta, C. mulanjae, C. psittacus and C. calidopectoris. The descriptions add to the knowledge of Afrotropical diversity in the order Trichoptera.