Genus Helicopsyche Siebold, 1856

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• Helicopsyche Siebold, C.T.E. von 1856. Wahre Parthenogenesis bei Schmetterlingen und Bienen. Leipzig : Engelmann vi 144 pp. [38].

  Type species:

   Helicopsyche shuttleworthi Siebold, 1856 by subsequent designation, see Flint, O.S. 1964. Caddis flies (Trichoptera) of Puerto Rico. Technical Papers of the Agricultural Experiment Station Puerto Rico 40: 1-80 [69].

  Secondary source:

   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] [87].
• Saetotricha Brauer, F. 1865. Zweiter Bericht über die auf der Weltfahrt der kais. Fregatte Novara gesammelten Neuropteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 415-422 [416].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Neboiss, A. 1986. Identity of two caddis-fly species described by Brauer and Navás (Trichoptera). Aquatic Insects 8: 99-104 [Date published 1 Aug. 1986] [99]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), 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), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Johanson, K.A. 1995. Eight new species and revised key to Australian Helicopsyche (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 26: 241-272

Johanson, K.A. 1997. Copulation mechanism and description of the East Australian Helicopsyche copulata, spec. nov. (Insecta: Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Spixiana (Munich) 20(3): 219-226

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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01-Nov-2011		29-May-2012	MODIFIED
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