Genus Aethaloptera Brauer, 1875

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aethaloptera Brauer, F. 1875. Beschreibung neuer und ungenügend bekannter Phryganiden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 25: 69-74 pl. iv [71].

  Type species:

   Aethaloptera dispar Brauer, 1875 by monotypy.

Introduction

Oláh (2018), in revising established species of Aethaloptera, removed A. sexpunctata from the Australian fauna, describing the Australian specimens as a new species, A. wellsi (sic).

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

HYDROPSYCHIDAE: Aethaloptera sexpunctata (Kolenati, 1859) — Oláh, J. 2018. Species delineation and description in Aethaloptera Brauer genus by phallic head (Trichoptera, Hydropsychidae, Macronematinae). Opuscula Zoologica. Budapest 49(1): 3–16

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Oláh, J. 2018. Species delineation and description in Aethaloptera Brauer genus by phallic head (Trichoptera, Hydropsychidae, Macronematinae). Opuscula Zoologica. Budapest 49(1): 3–16

History of changes