Species Agapetus monticolus Banks, 1939

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• Agapetus monticolus Banks, N. 1939. Trichoptera. pp. 479-504 in Banks, N. New genera and species of neuropteroid insects. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 85: 439-504 [503].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (ex MCZ 33096), Mt Kosciusko, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: lotic freshwater, saddle case maker.

Montane streams.

Extra Ecological Information

Lotic-erosional waters.

General References

Ross, H.H. 1956. Evolution and Classification of the Mountain Caddisflies. Urbana : Univ. Illinois Press 213 pp. (species identity confirmed)

Wells, A. 2010. Australian species of the genus Agapetus (Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae), with descriptions of 13 new species. Zootaxa 2420: 1-25

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