Species Helicopsyche murrumba Mosely, 1953

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• Helicopsyche murrumba 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] [72].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Murrumbidgee River, ACT.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Snail shell-shaped case of sand grains.

General References

Bailey, P.C.E. 1982. Diel activity pattern in larvae of the Australian caddisfly Helicopsyche murrumba Mosely (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 21: 247-250 [Date published 30 Nov. 1982]

Fulton, W. 1983. Macrobenthic fauna of Great Lake, Arthurs Lake and Lake Sorell, Tasmania. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 34: 775-785 [Date published 15 Nov. 1983]

Johanson, K.A. 1995. Eight new species and revised key to Australian Helicopsyche (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 26: 241-272 [258, figs 12A-G, 22D] (female described and illustrated, distribution)

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] (redescription, distribution)

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