Species Helicopsyche tillyardi Mosely, 1953

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• Helicopsyche tillyardi 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] [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Rules Point, approx. 20 km N of Kiandra, NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Neboiss, A. 1983. Checklist and Bibliography of the Australian Caddis-flies (Trichoptera). Caulfield East : Australian Society for Limnology Special Publication Vol. 5 132 pp. [Date published Feb. 1983] [28].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: lotic freshwater, tube case maker.

Extra Ecological Information

Snail shell-shaped case of sand grains.

General References

Johanson, K.A. 1995. Eight new species and revised key to Australian Helicopsyche (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 26: 241-272 [246, figs 2A-F, 3A-F, 22B] (revised description and figures, female described, distribution)

Korboot, K. 1963. Biological studies of some caddis-flies (Trichoptera) from South East Queensland. Papers of the Department of Entomology University of Queensland 1(16): 241-274 [Date published 20 Sept. 1963] (species identity not confirmed)

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