Species Moruya charadra Neboiss, 1962

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• Moruya charadra Neboiss, A. 1962. The Australian Hydrobiosinae (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae). Pacific Insects 4: 521-582 [Date published 10 Oct. 1962] [570].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, Broad River, near Lake Dobson, Mt Field National Park, TAS.
  Paratype(s) QM ♂ ♀; NMV ♂ ♀; ANIC ♂ ♀.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, free-living.

 

General References

Austin, A.D. & Browning, T.O. 1981. A mechanism for movement of eggs along insect ovipositors. International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology 10: 93-108 (ultrastructure)

Dean, J.C. 1997. Larvae of the Australian Hydrobiosidae (Insecta: Trichoptera). Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Identification Guide No. 11. Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Albury. 53 pp. [18] (larva unknown)

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)

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] [51] (new record)

 

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