Protoptila Banks 1904

Armitage, Brian J., Aguirre, Yusseff, Ríos González, Tomás A. & Blahnik, Roger J., 2022, The Trichoptera of Panama. XVIII. Twelve first country records of macrocaddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera) from the Republic of Panama, Zootaxa 5168 (5), pp. 578-588 : 580

Genus Protoptila Banks 1904

Known from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Lesser Antilles, 90 species have been identified in the Neotropics ( Holzenthal & Calor 2017; Blahnik & Armitage 2019). Additional taxa are found in North America. Panama is home to 13 species ( Armitage et al. 2015; Blahnik & Armitage 2019). Herein we add two more species from western Panama.