The Trichoptera diversity of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda,with description of a new species in the family Pisuliidae

• A total of nine families of Trichoptera were identified from material collected in Malaise andlight traps in the western part of Nyungwe National Park, southwestern Rwanda, late October 2018.Included in the material was an undescribed species of Pisuliidae which is described herein as Silvatareslaetae Ngirinshuti & Johanson sp. nov. The new species adds to the six Pisuliidae species previouslyrecorded for the East African region, five endemic to Tanzania and one to Uganda. This study portraysthe first results of an ongoing survey on the Trichoptera fauna of Rwanda.

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Rwanda

caddisflies

mountain streams

diversity

new species

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Diversity of life

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