Trichocorixa reticulata (Guérin-Méneville, 1857)

Rogers, D. Christopher & Cruz-Rivera, Edwin, 2021, A preliminary survey of the inland aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Journal of Natural History 55 (13 - 14), pp. 799-850 : 824

Trichocorixa reticulata (Guérin-Méneville, 1857)

This species is well known from Venezuela and several Caribbean islands, including all three main US Virgin Islands, Cuba, Curaçao Jamaica, and Puerto Rico ( Sailer 1948; Wolcott 1948a; Nieser 1969a; Muñoz Riviaux et al. 2010; Naranjo et al. 2010; Lanigan and Hyslop 2011) and otherwise is widespread in the Americas. We collected this species primarily from brackish to saline pools at Magens Beach and Red Hook Salt Pond, on St. Thomas, and from the salt ponds on Saba Island. We also found one specimen in a small artificial (plastic) ornamental pond on the St. Thomas Campus of the University of the Virgin Islands, in front of the EPSCoR offices. The records from Saba Island are the first from that site.