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 anaplasis
sp. nov.
(
Figs 134, 135
,
174, 175
,
186
)
Material examined.
Holotype
♂
, North
Queensland
,
25 km
along
Mt Lewis Road, SW
of
Mossman
,
16.i.1977
,
M.S & B.J. Moulds
,
NMV
.
Diagnosis.
This species is grouped with
Arc.
tortula, Arc.
flinti
,
and Arc.
acmea
in having the harpagones bifid, and sharing with
Arc.
acmea
,
Arc.
tortula
,
Arc.
volsella
, and
Arc.
nebo
the elongate, often sinuous apicolateral extensions on segment IX that extend beyond tergite X. It differs from
Arc.
acmea
and
Arc.
tortula
by the less robust genitalic structures and in ventral view the apicolateral processes club-shaped distally, rather than narrowly rounded or tapered to acute apices.
Description.
Male. Length of each forewing:
8 mm
(n = 1).
Genitalia (
Figs 134–135
,
174–175
): Abdominal tergites IX and X fused, processes arising from lateromedial margins of segment IX elongate, bifid, reaching well beyond apex of tergite X, sharply curved upwards at about 1/ 5 length, in ventral view dilated distally, densely setose; tergite X broadly rounded, scarcely cleft midapically; gonopods each with coxopodite triangular to subrectangular in ventral view, in lateral view trapezoidal, harpago bifid; phallus without parameres, slender distally, widest medially.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
specimen from the Wet Tropics of north-eastern
Queensland
.