A review of Australian long-horned caddisflies in the Oecetis pechana-group (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae), with descriptions of thirteen new species
Author
Wells, Alice
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Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2006
2006-12-31
63
2
107
128
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journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.13
1447-2554
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Oecetis buitenzorgensis
Ulmer
Figures 43–45, 71
Oecetis buitenzorgensis
Ulmer, 1951: 459
, figs 708–712.
Holotype
.
Java
(ZMB).
Material examined.
Qld:
7 males
,
Little Mulgrave
R.,
28 Jun 1971
,
E.F. Riek
(
ANIC
)
;
3 males
,
West Claudie R.
,
Iron Range
,
17 Sep 1974
,
M.S. Moulds
(
NMV
,
1 male
on slide)
;
1 male
,
Middle Claudie R.
,
Iron Range
,
2–9 Oct 1974
,
M.S. Moulds
(
NMV
)
;
1 male
,
Mcleod
R.,
15 km
W of Mt Carbine
,
22–23 Jun 1975
,
S.R. Monteith
(
ANIC
)
;
3 males
,
1 female
,
Mulgrave
R.,
W of Gordonvale
,
29 Apr 1979
,
A. Wells
(
NMV
:
WTH 1387
,
1 male
on slide)
;
2 males
,
5 km
W by
N Rounded Hill
nr Hope
Vale Mission
,
15°17'S
,
145°10'E
,
7 Oct 1980
,
J.C. Cardale
(
ANIC
)
;
1 male
,
3 km
ENE
Mt Tozer
,
12°44'S
,
143°14'E
,
2 Jul 1986
,
J.C. Cardale
(
ANIC
)
;
4 males
,
2 females
,
9 km
ENE
Mt Tozer
,
12°43'S
,
143°17'E
,
5–10 Jul 1986
,
J.C. Cardale
(
ANIC
)
;
3 males
,
12°44'S
,
143°16'E
,
Claudie R.
,
Iron Range National Park
,
25 km
NW Lockhart
R.,
10 Nov 1988
,
K. Walker
(
NMV
)
;
3 males
,
21 females
,
Bertie Creek
,
1 km
SE Heathlands
HS,
4 Feb 1992
,
D. Cartwright
and
A. Wells
(
QM
)
;
1 male
,
19 females
,
Gunshot Creek
at
Telegraph Crossing
,
18 Feb 1992
,
D. Cartwright
and
A. Wells
(
QM
)
;
4 males
,
2 females
,
Kearney Falls
,
Goldsborough Valley
,
26–27 Mar 1997
,
G. Theischinger
and
L. Muller
(
ANIC
, 1maleonslide)
;
7males
,CapeYorkPeninsula,
IronRange
,
Rainforest Camping Ground
,
6 Oct 2002
,
G. Theischinger
(
ANIC
)
.
Diagnosis.
Wings with long downy hair and, as in
O. burtoni
and
O. australis
, male forewings lack scale patches. Males are distinguished by genitalic features (figs 43–45): shape of the inferior appendages which are stout and elongate in ventral aspect, in lateral view narrowly tapered apically and with a dorso-mesial expansion; and pre-anal lobes that are broadly almond-shaped. Male forewing length, 3.9–5.5 mm.
Distribution.
Known in
Australia
only from far north-eastern Qld. Described from Bogor (= Buitenzorg), Java, and recorded subsequently from New
Guinea
(
Kimmins, 1962
, from Kokoda,
Papua New Guinea
).
Remarks.
Oecetis buitenzorgensis
is one of several Oriental/New Guinean species recorded from far northern
Queensland
.
Chen, 1992
placing
O. buitenzorgensis
with a group of Palaearctic and Oriental species (African, Indian and Thai), commented that it is a
nomen dubium
, not recognisable from Ulmerʼs illustrations. However, the north-eastern Australian specimens agree closely with Ulmerʼs figures, and conform well to other members of the
pechana
- group as recognised here.