Australian species of the genus Agapetus (Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae), with descriptions of 13 new species
Author
Wells, Alice
text
Zootaxa
2010
2420
1
25
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.194445
02c1d6ff-02e5-4af2-b2b5-7df4aeac8092
1175-5326
194445
Agapetus cralus
(Mosely)
Figs 3
,
24
Synagapetus crala
Mosely
, in
Mosely & Kimmins 1953
: 500
.
Agapetus (Synagapetus) crala
(Mosely, in
Mosely & Kimmins 1953
);
Ross 1956
: 161
.
Synagapetus styliferus
Jacquemart, 1965
: 37
;
Neboiss 1977
: 37
(for synonymy).
Material examined:
Holotype
male: Tasmania:
Cradle Mountains
BMNH
(
Fig. 3
);. 66 samples from
Tasmania
and 25 from central and eastern
Victoria
,
NMV
; 3 samples from Tasmania,
ANIC
.
Diagnosis: Superficially both sexes are indistinguishable from those of
A. laparus
save that
A. cralus
males and females have a caudally directed process medially on sternite VI, absent in
A. laparus
. Males may be distinguished from
A. pontona
and
A. dayi
by the more rounded shape of segment X in lateral view, the gonopods stouter basally in ventral view, more elongate in lateral view; and are clearly distinguished from
A. dayi
by the cerci which are club-shaped in lateral view. This species is distinguished from the closely similar North Queensland
A. paluma
sp. nov.
by the shape of segment IX which is more deeply produced anteriorly, and by the shape of each gonopod and the apicomesal position of its spur. Females are indistinguishable from those of most other Australian
Agapetus
species.
Forewing length: Male, 4.0–5.0 mm; female
4.5–5.5 mm
(
Neboiss 1986b
).
Distribution: Widespread in Tasmania, and collected from several sites in southeastern Victoria.
Remarks: A pharate adult (from a small tributary of Cobungra Creek, Cobungra Hill, Victoria, in the collection of
NMV
) reared from a larva by J. Dean resembles
A. cralus
in most respects, but in lateral view the cerci are stout with margins parallel; it may represent another species.