A review of the Australian species of Ecnomina Kimmins and Daternomina Neboiss (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae)
Author
Cartwright, David I.
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-05-21
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1774.1.1
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Ecnomina chorisis
Neboiss
Figures 117–119
Ecnomina chorisis
Neboiss, 1978: 828
, figs 4–6. —
Neboiss 1986: 154
Diagnosis.
Ecnomina chorisis
is similar to
E. cohibilis
in possessing broad, fused, inferior appendages, with entire margin, not incised meso-distally, but it is distinguished by inferior appendages with length greater than width.
Description. Head, body light brown and wings pale; wings similar to
E. legula
(
Fig. 3
). Forewing length about 3 times width: male
2.8 mm
. Forewing fork 2 relatively long, sessile, length about 1.3–1.4 times length of fork 3; fork 3 relatively long with short footstalk, length fork greater than 3.2 times length footstalk, footstalk length about 1.2–1.5 times length cross-vein m, r-m and m not contiguous at fork 3 by about 0.5–0.9 times length of cross-vein m; fork 4 shorter than fork 3; fork 5 long, length about 1.8 times length of fork 4. Hindwing length about 3.0–3.2 times width, fork 2 sessile, length about 1.5 times length of fork 3.
Male. (Revised after
Neboiss 1978
). Tergum X membranous (
Fig. 119
). Superior appendages in lateral view, sub-rectangular, length about 3 times width, with a robust, hooked ventro-distal projection ventrobasally (
Fig. 117
); in dorsal view, length about 3.5 times width, with two pairs of small meso-subapical teeth (
Fig. 119
). Phallus generally tube-like, with a pair of elongate parameres dorso-laterally (
Fig. 117
). Inferior appendages fused, dorso-ventrally flattened, up curved laterally; in ventral view, large, broad, length about 1.2 times width, entire margin distally (
Fig. 118
); in lateral view, length about 2.5 times width, broad near middle, tapered distally (
Fig. 117
).
Female. Unknown.
Material
examined:
Holotype
male
,
Queensland
,
Fraser Island
,
Little Minker Lake
,
18 Dec 1975
,
H. Burton
(
NMV
, T-5698, specimen PT-548 figured).
Remarks.
Ecnomina chorisis
appears to be restricted in distribution and probably is rare as it has been collected from the
type
locality only, in south-eastern
Queensland
(latitude
24°54'S
). Neboiss’s (1978) figures have been redrawn to allow direct comparisons and to accompany the description that is revised in light of new interpretations of
Ecnomina
genitalic and wing structures.