New and newly recorded micro-caddisfly species (Insecta: Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from Australia’s north, including islands of Torres Strait
Author
Wells, Alice
Author
Dostine, Peter
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4127.3.11
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Orthotrichia becca
sp. nov.
Figures 16, 17
Diagnosis.
In having a pair of strong, stout black setae on abdominal segment VIII, this species is also a member of the
Orthotrichia gracilis
Group. In
O. becca
the bases of the 2 setae are very close together, resembling those of the northern Australian
Orthotrichia bellicosa
Wells. However
,
O. becca
differs from that species in having closepressed, distally cone-shaped gonopods with their extremities heavily sclerotised, and, distally on the dorsum of the dorsal plate, a lightly sclerotised beak-shaped structure.
Description.
Male. Length of each forewing
1.3–1.5 mm
(n = 2). Antennae each with 24 antennomeres. Genitalia as in
Figs 15, 16
. Abdominal segment VIII bearing dorso-mesally one pair of closely based stout, elongate black spines; dorsal plate with sinuous blade-like sclerotised spine on left side, with membranous beaklike structure beyond it; on right broad straight spine; paramere long, slender spine; gonopods almond-shaped, distally sclerotised, close-pressed; dorsal process short, quadrate, membranous; antero-ventral apodeme elongate; phallic apparatus as for genus, slender in distal section, with a spiral titillator.
Female. Unknown.
Types
.
Holotype
. male, NORTHERN TERRITORY, Berry Springs,
11–12.i.2016
, P. Dostine, light trap (NTM, slide).
Paratype
.
1 male
, data as for
holotype
(ANIC, slide).
Etymology.
From the Latin for beak —
beccus
, for the beak-like structure on the dorsal plate.
Remarks.
The similarity in male genitalia of this species and
O. bellicosa
, described from NW Western
Australia
, possibly has led to earlier misidentifications of other Northern Territory specimens.