New synonyms in the Australian micro-caddisfly fauna (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae)
Author
Wells, Alice
text
Zootaxa
2012
3177
66
68
journal article
45544
10.5281/zenodo.279936
b00a6aa3-766c-4365-9d09-2db765b28758
1175-5326
279936
Orthotrichia zonata
Neboiss
Orthotrichia zonata
Neboiss, 1977
: 41
;
Wells 1979c
: 591
Orthotrichia capa
Olah & Johanson, 2010
: 42
,
syn. nov.
The failure to identify as
Orthotrichia zonata
the specimen newly described as
Orthotrichia capa
is difficult to comprehend, even without the authors having examined the
type
of
Orthotrichia zonata
. The combination of illustrations of
O. zonata
male genitalia by
Neboiss (1977)
and
Wells (1979c)
show clearly all the features seen in Neboiss' species, all of which are readily recognisable in the
holotype
of
O. capa
. Comparison of
O. capa
with
O. atraseta
Wells, 1979c
, in the diagnosis of
Olah and Johanson (2010)
, rather than with
O. zonata
, seems inexplicable.