Species Cheumatopsyche wellsae Dean, 2001

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• Cheumatopsyche wellsae Dean, J.C. 2001. New species of Hydropsychidae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from Northern Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 58(2): 231-246 [236].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-17440 ♂, East Alligator River, Cahills Crossing, NT [12°26'S 132°58'E].
  Paratype(s) NMV 11♂ 7♀; ANIC 4♂ 4♀.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Fixed retreat maker, lentic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Netbuilder.

General References

Dean, J.C. 1999. Preliminary Keys for the Identification of Australian Trichoptera Larvae of the Family Hydropsychidae. Identification Guide No. 22. Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Albury. 40 pp. (larva as Cheumatopsyche sp. AV11)

Wells, A. 1991. A Guide to the Caddisflies of the Alligator Rivers Region, N.T. Open File Record of the Office of the Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region. 105 pp. (larva as Cheumatopsyche sp. 11)

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