Diplectrona castanea Kimmins

Wells, Alice & Contents, Arturs Neboiss Table Of, 2018, Australian Diplectroninae reviewed (Insecta: Trichoptera), with description of 21 new species, most referred to a new genus, Zootaxa 4415 (1), pp. 1-44 : 7-8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5966195

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D65762-3355-3F38-908B-25479BD4BBCA

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scientific name

Diplectrona castanea Kimmins
status

 

Diplectrona castanea Kimmins View in CoL

( Figs 22, 27 View FIGURES 17–31 , 32–34)

Diplectrona castanea Kimmins 1953 View in CoL , 342.

Diplectrona lyella Neboiss 1977 View in CoL , 72; Neboiss 2003, 70 (synonym).

Material examined. Holotype D. castanea , ♂, Tasmania, National Park , 3000 ft, 26.xii.1936 ( BMNH) ; holotype ( D. lyelli ) ♂, Tasmania, King River , 5.xi.1961, N. Dobrotworsky ( NMV) ; paratype, 1♂, Hellyer River Gorge, 2.xii.1972, P. Zwick.

Other material: Tasmania: 1♂ 1♀, Arrowsmith Creek, 18 km SW of Derwent Bridge, 9.xii.1974, A. Neboiss [PT-1068; TRI-15009]; 1♀, Bull Creek, Cradle Mtn Road, 13.xii.1974, A. Neboiss [PT-2192; TRI-15006]; 1♂, Trib. of Darwin River, West Coast, 31.x.1976, P. Allbrook [TRI-15010, image]; 1♂, Mt Barrow, 11 km EbyN Nunamara, 41°23'S 147°25'E, 7.ii.1983, J.C. Cardale [PT-2238; TRI-15008]; 1♂, Little Florentine River, upstream of Gordon Road, 2.xii.1998, J. Jackson [PT-2135; TRI-15007]; 1♂, Nelson River, base of Nelson Falls, 3.xi.1998, J. Jackson [PT-2191; TRI-15004].

Diagnosis. Diplectrona castanea groups with D. spinata and D. inermis having in the male genitalia endothecal spines on the phallic apparatus, and in lateral view a spur-like apicomedial projection on the margin of abdominal segment IX. However, D. castanea is clearly distinguished by the very spiny, well-sclerotised complex of spines ( Figs 32, 34 View FIGURES 32–48 ) rather than discrete sharp spines as in the other two species, and by the harpagones of the gonopods short, less than 0.25x length of their coxopodites, and strongly hooked rather than smoothly conical as in D. spinata or D. inermis .

Description. See Neboiss (2003, 70).

Remarks. The ‘diagnosis’ given by Neboiss (2003) is rather more of a ‘description’, being quite comprehensive.

Distribution. Known only from Tasmania, from the SE, NE, SW, and NW provinces.

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Trichoptera

Family

Hydropsychidae

SubFamily

Diplectroninae

Genus

Diplectrona

Loc

Diplectrona castanea Kimmins

Wells, Alice & Contents, Arturs Neboiss Table Of 2018
2018
Loc

Diplectrona lyella

Neboiss 1977
1977
Loc

Diplectrona castanea

Kimmins 1953
1953
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