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
53804
10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.13
62340dea-37ea-4baf-8d2e-d253a9020018
1447-2554
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Key to males of
Oecetis
species groups in
Australia
[Modified from
Wells, 2004
]
1. Abdominal tergite VIII sculptured, expanded and extended distally, forming shield over terminal abdominal segments and genitalia
reticulata
-group (see
Neboiss,
1989: fig. 2)
— Abdominal tergite VIII unmodified 2
2. Wings with veins strongly pronounced, fork 1 without a footstalk (sessile)
longiterga
-group (see
Wells, 2004
: figs 91, 94)
— Wings with veins not strongly pronounced, fork 1 with or without footstalk 3
3. Phallus simple, lacking parameres
laustra
-group (see
Wells, 2004
: figs 18, 46, 59)
— Phallus with 1 or more internal or external parameres or spines 4
4. Forewingfork 1 sessile, winglaminaoftenbearingpatches of scales (androconia) (fig. 1); phallus usually with a single internal paramere or spine, never with more than 1 spine associated with the phallus (e.g. figs 3 8)
pechana
-group (see below)
— Forewing fork 1 stalked, wing never bearing patches of scales; phallus with 1 or more external parameres (spines of the phallotheca)
complexa
-group (see
Wells, 2000
: figs 25, 26–33)