<em>Chimarra</em> species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/25/2020). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'>CC BY</a>). (Photo ID: 211616 - Psn: 20)

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A <em>Chimarra</em> species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/24/2016). Verified by Dave Ruiter/BugGuide. (Photo ID: 132243 - Psn: 26)

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A <em>Chimarra</em> species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/24/2016). Verified by Dave Ruiter/BugGuide. (Photo ID: 132242 - Psn: 28)

A Chimarra species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/24/2016). Verified by Dave Ruiter/BugGuide.

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<em>Chimarra</em> species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/15/2021). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'>CC BY</a>). (Photo ID: 361766 - Psn: 32)

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<em>Chimarra</em> species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/20/2021). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'>CC BY</a>). (Photo ID: 517018 - Psn: 55)

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<em>Chimarra</em> species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (8/5/2023). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'>CC BY</a>). (Photo ID: 935901 - Psn: 55)

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<em>Chimarra</em> species in Allegany Co., Maryland (7/9/2021). (c) Jim Brighton, some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'>CC BY-NC</a>). (Photo ID: 435617 - Psn: 88)

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Bugguide notes 22 species within this genus in North America. The larvae are filter feeders and spin very fine-meshed nets, usually grouped together on the undersides of rocks near the upstream edge, to capture small particles of plant and animal matter plus algae such as diatoms.

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Chimarra

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Trichoptera
Family:	Philopotamidae
Genus:	Chimarra Stephens, 1829
Subgenera
Chimarra (Chimarra) Stephens, 1829 Chimarra (Chimarrita) Blahnik, 1997 Chimarra (Curgia) Walker, 1860
Diversity
at least 630 species

Chimarra is a genus of little black caddisflies in the family Philopotamidae. There are more than 630 described species in Chimarra.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

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^ "Chimarra Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ "Chimarra". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ "Chimarra genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ Morse, John C. (2019). "Trichoptera World Checklist". International Symposia on Trichoptera. Archived from the original on 2020-02-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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Taxon identifiers
Chimarra	Wikidata: Q5185996 Wikispecies: Chimarra AFD: Chimarra BOLD: 1980 BugGuide: 38313 CoL: 3N68 EoL: 50493 Fauna Europaea: 411062 Fauna Europaea (new): a4ab4f03-3676-4756-a922-aecf1f48915a GBIF: 1430802 iNaturalist: 174228 ITIS: 115273 NBN: NHMSYS0020704778 NCBI: 177910 Open Tree of Life: 325826 Paleobiology Database: 222114 Plazi: D76C9520-F81C-FFCD-FF0A-1CC94F2AF964

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Chimarra sp. Stephens, 1829

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