Species Nyctiophylax (Paranyctiophylax) parvus Mosely, 1953

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nyctiophylax parvus 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] [357].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Manbulla Station, Katherine, NT.

Generic Combinations

• Paranyctiophylax parvus (Mosely, 1953). —
  Neboiss, A. 1992. Revised definitions of the genera Nyctiophylax Brauer and Paranyctiophylax Tsuda (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae). pp. 107-111 in Otto, C. (ed.). Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Trichoptera. Netherlands : Backhuys.
• Nyctiophylax (Paranyctiophylax) parvus Mosely, 1953 [Paranyctiophylax restored to subgenus status following Oláh & Johanson (2010)]. —
  Oláh, J. & Johanson, K.A. 2010. Generic review of Polycentropodidae with description of 32 new species and 19 new species records from the Oriental, Australian and Afrotropical Biogeographical Regions. Zootaxa 2435: 1-63

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: aquatic, fixed retreat maker.

General References

Cartwright, David I. & Dostine, Peter 2022. Five new species and new records of caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from Australia’s ‘Top End’. Zootaxa 5138(3): 283–304 [Date published 18 May 2022] [301] (new records from northern NT)

Neboiss, A. 1994. A review of the genus Paranyctiophylax Tsuda from Sulawesi, Papua New Guinea and northern Australia (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 54: 191-205 [196, figs 16-19] (distribution, male and female genitalia illustrated)

Wells, A. & Cartwright, D. 1993. Trichoptera, Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Odonata of the Jardine River area, Cape York, northern Queensland. pp. 221-230 in Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Inc. (ed.). Report of the Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition. Brisbane : Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Inc. Vol. 1. [227] (distribution)

History of changes