Genus Diplectrona Westwood, 1839

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• Diplectrona Westwood, J.O. 1839. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects, founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. Synopsis of the genera of British insects. London : Longman Vol. 2(9–15) xi 587 pp. [Date published published 1938 to 1940: date of publication confirmed from Griffin, F.J. 1932. [dates of parts] Proc. R. Entomological Society London vol. 6 (3)] [49].

  Type species:

   Diplectrona felix McLachlan, 1878 by designation under Plenary Powers, see ICZN 1966. Opinion 758 Diplectrona Westwood, 1839 (Insecta, Trichoptera): validation and designation of a type-species under the Plenary Powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 22: 288-289.
• Diemeniluma Neboiss, A. 2003. New genera and species, and new records, of Tasmanian Trichoptera (Insecta). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 136: 43-82 [dated 2002] [71].

  Type species:

   Diplectrona tasmanica Jacquemart, 1965 (=Diemeniluma tasmanica (Jacquemart, 1965)) by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wells, A. & Neboiss, A. 2018. Australian Diplectroninae reviewed (Insecta: Trichoptera), with description of 21 new species, most referred to a new genus. Zootaxa 4415(1): 1–44

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Distribution References

General References

Dean, J.C. & Bunn, S.E. 1989. Larval descriptions of the Hydrobiosidae, Philopotamidae, Hydropsychidae and some Ecnomidae (Trichoptera) from south-western Australia, with notes on biology. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40: 631-643 [641] (description of unassociated larva)

Neboiss, A. 2003. New genera and species, and new records, of Tasmanian Trichoptera (Insecta). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 136: 43-82 [dated 2002] [70] (new record)

Wells, A. & Neboiss, A. 2018. Australian Diplectroninae reviewed (Insecta: Trichoptera), with description of 21 new species, most referred to a new genus. Zootaxa 4415(1): 1–44 (genus reviewed)

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