Species Hellyethira exserta Wells, 1979

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• Hellyethira exserta Wells, A. 1979. A review of the Australian genera Xuthotrichia Mosely and Hellyethira Neboiss (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae), with descriptions of new species. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 311-329 [Date published 14 Apr. 1979] [319].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-6007 ♂, Boonoo Boonoo River, 5 km upstream from falls, NSW.
  Paratype(s) NMV ♂ ♀; ANIC ♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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: lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

On rocks along slower margins, often amongst chain diatoms.

General References

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] [53] (new record)

Wells, A. 1985. Larvae and pupae of Australian Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera), with observations on general biology and relationships. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 113: 1-69 [Date published 31 Oct. 1985] (larva, case)

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