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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10.11646/zootaxa.4415.1.1
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Diplectrona willandi
sp. nov.
(
Figs 14–16
,
24
, 45–46)
Material
examined.
Holotype
♂
, N
Queensland
,
Fishery Falls
,
17°11'S
145°52'E
,
10–11.xi.2007
,
A. Cairns
,
A. Wells
,
W. Cairns
(
NMV
)
.
Paratypes
,
Queensland
:
2♂
, collected with holotype
.
Diagnosis.
Resembling
D. spinata
and
D. inermis
, but lacking discrete spines associated with the phallus; however, it has the endothecal apical angles on the phallic apparatus acute rather than rounded, and sclerotised and spiny in appearance, although visible only in the macerated specimen; in ventral view the phallic apparatus is stout and heavily sclerotised; the lateral margins of tergite X are similarly heavily sclerotised.
Description.
Male. Length of each forewing:
5.2–5.5 mm
(n = 3); cell
ac
shallow, but not parallel-sided (
Fig. 24
); hind wings broadly rounded.
Genitalia (
Figs 14–16
,
45–46
): Sternite IX shallowly concave, tergites IX and X partially fused, lateral margins darkly sclerotised; gonopods slender, elongate, length of coxopodite about
7x
maximum width, harpago about 0.3x length of coxopodite, strongly curved mesally, a small mesal spur at base; phallic apparatus stout, heavily sclerotised ventrally (indicated by shaded area in
Fig. 14
), endotheca apical angles acute, sclerotised.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality in a water catchment reserve just south of Tully in the wet tropics of north-eastern
Queensland
.
Remarks.
The head warts of this species differ from those of others in the genus, being wide and shallow.