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
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Arcyphysa nebo
sp. nov.
(
Figs 143–145
)
Material examined.
Holotype
♂
,
Queensland
,
Mt Nebo
,
13.xii.1959
,
J Kerr
(
NMV
[TRI-39427]).
Paratypes
,
Queensland
:
1♂
, data as for holotype (
NMV
[PT-1096; TRI-39433])
;
3♂
,
Branch Creek
,
Brisbane River
, catchment,
26°52'S
152°41'E
,
25.x.1993
(
NMV
[TRI-39424])
;
2♂
,
Branch Creek
,
Brisbane River
, catchment,
26°52'S
152°41'E
,
20.xii.1993
(
NMV
[TRI-39420]).
Other material examined.
1♂
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Port Moresby
,
Feb. 1963
,
K. Korboot
[TRI-54709].
Diagnosis.
Most closely similar to
D. volsella
with which it shares the feature on abdominal segment IX of long lateral extensions that are gradually tapered to acute apices and of undivided harpagones, but in this species the processes are irregularly curved, not sharply twisted, each has a band of dense setae along its length, not just on the terminal 1/3, and the harpagones and coxopodites are approximately equal in length, whereas in
D. volsella
, the harpagones are about 1/3 length of the coxopodites.
Description.
Male. Length of each forewing:
6.3–6.5 mm
(n = 2).
Genitalia (
Figs 143–145
): Abdominal segment IX in lateral view not clearly demarcated from tergite X, midlaterally with long slender irregularly curved process extending on each side well beyond apex of tergite X, densely setose along ridge extending almost full length of process; gonopods with coxopodites and harpagones approximately equal in length, in lateral view coxopodites subrectangular, harpagones undivided, slightly tapered distally to rounded apices; phallic apparatus without parameres, stoutest in midregion, narrowed towards apex, in lateral view strongly curved downwards.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution.
In
Australia
, collected only at Mt Nebo, some
30 to 40 km
north-west of Brisbane; also collected from SE
Papua New Guinea
.