Australian Diplectroninae reviewed (Insecta: Trichoptera), with description of 21 new species, most referred to a new genus
Author
Wells, Alice
Author
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-27
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journal article
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Austropsyche kaputar
sp. nov.
(
Figs 68–69
,
72, 77
, 90–91)
Material examined.
Holotype
♂
,
New
South Wales
,
Mt Kaputar NP
,
Bullawa Cr.
,
24.xi.1984
,
G. Hangay
(
NMV
[PT-1714]).
Paratypes
,
New
South Wales
:
2♂
7♀
, data as for holotype [PT-1713].
Diagnosis.
Austropsyche kaputar
shares with
Au. bifurcata
and
Au. victoriana
the form of wing venation, with the forewing median cell exceeding by about 1/3 the length of the discoidal cell and in male genitalia having endothecal spines subapically on the phallic apparatus; but uniquely, this species has the mesal process on the coxopodite of each gonopod stout, elongate, and arising within a 'collar' near the base of the coxopodite.
Description.
Length of each forewing:
♂
9.4–10.8 mm
(n = 3),
♀
11.5–12.2 mm
(n = 7); wing venation (
Fig. 77
) as in
Au. bifurcata
, forewing median cell elongate, length about
5x
maximum width; filaments on abdominal segment V about length of segment.
Male. Abdominal reticulate-walled internal sacs elongate, greater than one segment length. Genitalia (
Figs 68– 69
,
90–91
): Tergites IX and X partially fused, tergite X in dorsal view shallowly cleft at apex; gonopods each with coxopodite bearing relatively large, densely setose mesal process arising near base and extending almost to apex of coxopodite, in lateral view arising ventrally near base of coxopodite, apically acute; phallic apparatus with 2 pairs of sclerotised spines subapically.
Female. Terminal abdomen with sternite VIII divided to form 2 plates, plates broad based in ventral view, broadly rounded apicomesally, apicolateral angles sharply triangular.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality, approximately
50 km
east of Narrabri, on the western side of the Great Dividing Range in north-eastern
New South
Wales
.