Species Apsilochorema obliquum (Mosely, 1953)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bachorema obliqua Mosely, M.E. & Kimmins, D.E. 1953. The Trichoptera (Caddis-flies) of Australia and New Zealand. London : British Museum (Natural History) 550 pp. [Date published 6 Feb. 1953] [494].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (ex Tillyard coll.), National Park, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, free-living.

Extra Ecological Information

Constructs pupal enclosure, pupates within dark brown silken cocoon.

General References

Chessman, B.C. 1986. Dietary studies of aquatic insects from two Victorian rivers. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37: 129-146 [Date published 9 May 1986]

Neboiss, A. 1957. A review of the genus Bachorema Mosely, family Rhyacophilidae, Trichoptera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 21: 83-91 [Date published 6 Aug. 1957] (female described)

Neboiss, A. 1962. The Australian Hydrobiosinae (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae). Pacific Insects 4: 521-582 [Date published 10 Oct. 1962] (species name emended)

Neboiss, A. 1977. A taxonomic and zoogeographic study of Tasmanian caddis-flies (Insecta: Trichoptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 1-208 [Date published 4 Apr. 1977] (distribution)

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

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