Species Hydrobiosella tasmanica Mosely, 1953

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• Hydrobiosella tasmanica 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] [390] [Neboiss, A. 1977. A taxonomic and zoogeographic study of Tasmanian caddis-flies (Insecta: Trichoptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 38: 1–208; for paratype from Cradle Mtn see Hydrobiosella cognata Kimmins, 1953 and for two male paratypes from Hobart see Hydrobiosella armata Jacquemart, 1965].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, TAS.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀.

  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].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Construct sack-like silk nets, lotic-erosional.

General References

Cartwright, D.I. 2010. Studies of Australian Hydrobiosella Tillyard: a review of the Australian species of the Hydrobiosella bispina Kimmins group (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67: 1-13 [2] (in H. tasmanica group)

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] (distribution, redescription)

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] [55] (new record)

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