Species Oecetis australis (Banks, 1920)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oecetina australis Banks, N. 1920. Trichoptera. pp. 342-362 in Banks, N. New neuropteroid insects. Native and exotic. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64: 299-362 pls 1-7 [Date published Oct. 1920] [350].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (ex MCZ 10916), Melbourne, VIC.
• Oecetis situlus Korboot, K. 1964. Four new species of caddis flies (Trichoptera) from eastern Australia. Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 3: 32-41 [Date published 9 Mar. 1964] [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T-6166 ♂, Cedar Creek, Tamborine Mtn, QLD.
  Paratype(s) EUQ ♂ ♀.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Neboiss, A. 1987. Identity of species of Trichoptera described by K. Korboot 1964–65 (Trichoptera: Insecta). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 48: 131-140 [Date published 30 Nov. 1987] [139]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: aquatic, tube case maker.

General References

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] (change of genus)

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] (redescription, distribution)

Neboiss, A. 1979. A review of caddis-flies from three coastal islands of south-eastern Queensland (Insecta: Trichoptera). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 29(1978): 825-843 [Date published 18 Jan. 1979] (distribution)

Neboiss, A. 1987. Identity of species of Trichoptera described by K. Korboot 1964–65 (Trichoptera: Insecta). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 48: 131-140 [Date published 30 Nov. 1987] (larva referred to Notalina fulva Kimmins, 1953, remarks, figures)

Wells, A. 2006. A review of Australian long-horned caddisflies in the Oecetis pechana-group (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae), with descriptions of thirteen new species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63(2): 107-128 [121] (new records, diagnosis)

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. [228] (distribution)

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