A review of Australian long-horned caddisflies in the Oecetis pechana-group (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae), with descriptions of thirteen new species
Author
Wells, Alice
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2006
2006-12-31
63
2
107
128
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-63-issue-2-2006/pages-107-128/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.13
1447-2554
8064969
Oecetis radonensis
sp. nov.
Figures 16, 17, 61
Material examined
.
Holotype
.
Male, NT
,
Kakadu National Park
,
Radon Springs
,
Suter
and
Wells
,
13–14 Apr 1989
(
NMV
T-18840).
Paratypes
. NT:
17 males
,
14 females
, same data as for holotype (
NMV
and
NTM
:
1 male
on slide)
;
4 males
,
3 females
,
Little Baroalba Creek
,
25–26 Apr 1991
,
Wells
and
Webber
(
ANIC
)
;
1 male
,
Kakadu National Park
,
Baroalba Springs
,
12°48'S
,
132°49'E
,
4 Mar 1992
,
Wells
(
NTM
)
.
Other material.
NT:
1 male
,
Radon Creek
,
Kakadu National Park
,
3 Sep 1979
,
J. Blyth
(
NMV
). WA:
1 male
,
Mitchell Plateau
,
30 Jan 1978
,
J.E. Bishop
(
NMV
)
.
Diagnosis.
Closely similar to
O. humphreyi
sp. nov.
but male distinguished by having inferior appendages in ventral view, stout throughout length, rounded apically, and with 2 small patches of setae at about two-thirds length; phallus longer with paramere only very slightly curved.
Description
. Male. Wings narrow, dark markings at crossveins, anastomoses and at marginal ends of veins; vestiture short; with a single elongate patch of scales; forewing length 4.8–5.5 mm. Abdominal segments III and IV with tergites sclerotised; segment IX excavated mid-ventrally and thus appearing to have well-developed lateral lobes; X spatulate in dorsal view, slender and elongate in lateral view. Genitalia, see figs 16, 17. Pre-anal appendages sub-triangular. Phallus about 1.5 segments long; phallotheca with membranous apex sharply down-turned; paramere in lateral view slightly curved. Inferior appendages elongate and in ventral and lateral views almost uniformly stout throughout length; in ventral view with apices in-turned, without a basi-dorsal pouch; dorsally at about two-thirds length a small group of short setae on a raised papilla, another cluster on mesial margin, these possibly homologous with the sets of setae on papillae in the basi-dorsal pouches seen in
O. pechana
and other species.
Distribution.
From the Kimberley region of northern WA and the north of the NT, but not a commonly collected species.
Etymology
. Named for the
type
locality, on the edge of Mt Brockman in Kakadu National Park.