Species Nyctiophylax (Paranyctiophylax) rhamphodes (Neboiss, 1994)

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• Paranyctiophylax rhamphodes 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 [200, figs 42-46].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-10766 ♂, NT, South Alligator River above BHP camp.
  Paratype(s) NMV ♂ (genitalic prep. PT-1948 figured), NT, South Alligator River, above BHP camp; NMV ♂, NT, South Alligator River, below BHP camp; NMV ♂, NT, South Alligator River, below Fisher Creek junction; BPBM 40♂ 7♀ (also NMV, NTM, RMNH; genitalia prep. PT1960 figured), NT, Baroalba Springs, Kakadu National Park [12°48'S 132°49'E].

Generic Combinations

• Nyctiophylax (Paranyctiophylax) rhamphodes (Neboiss, 1994). —
  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 (subgeneric status of Paranyctiophylax accepted following Oláh & Johanson (2010))

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: fixed retreat maker, lotic freshwater.

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)

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