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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Arcyphysa carnarvona
sp. nov.
(
Figs 126–127
,
147
, 171–173)
Material
examined.
Holotype
♂
,
Queensland
,
Carnarvon Gorge National Park
,
25°15'S
148°24'E
,
12.xi.1990
,
G. Theischinger
(
NMV
[TRI-39506]).
Paratypes
,
Queensland
:
2♂
3♀
, collected with holotype [TRI-39506].
Diagnosis.
This species groups with
Arc.
crescentina
,
Arc
.
sybillae
,
Arc.
caldera
, and
Arc.
hugginsi
, having, in the males, parameres on the phallus. Among these species, males most closely resemble those of
Arc.
hugginsi
and
Arc.
caldera
in having two pairs of long apicolateral processes on segment IX.
Arcyphysa carnarvona
most closely resembles
Arc.
hugginsi
in having the outermost pair heavily sclerotised, but in
Arc.
carnarvona
the processes are sinuous, crossed medially, crenate, and slightly truncate apically, while in
Arc.
hugginsi
the processes curve gently, swell distally to be bulbous and then converge without crossing toward pointed, beak-like apices.
Description.
Length of each forewing:
♂
8.7 mm
(n = 3),
♀
9.6 mm
(n = 3).
Male. In abdomen, glandular sacs ovoid, about one segment long; filaments on segment V short, about 1/4 length of segment. Genitalia (
Figs 126–127
,
171–173
): Abdominal segment IX apicolaterally with 2 processes on each side, outermost heavily sclerotised, sinuous, apically crenate, and innermost, more dorsal process pale and terminating in dense spines; tergite IX slightly sclerotised, evenly rounded distally, fused with membranous segment X; segment X in dorsal view rounded distally, shallowly cleft medially; gonopods each with coxopodite in ventral view about
5x
maximum width, harpago short, curved inward, apically abruptly reduced to acute spur, in lateral view bifid apically; phallic apparatus expanded basally with very short, conical, apically sclerotised paramere on each side, shorter than in
D. sybillae
.
Female. Terminalia almost 'lotus-like' in ventral view, with sternite VIII in form of 2 well-separated valves, slightly divided distally and laterally produced in narrow distal lobes; sternite IX with paired leaf-like sclerotisations laterally; segment X with cerci and paired apical papillae well developed.
Distribution.
Known only from Carnarvon Gorge in the Brigalow country of southern
Queensland
.