Species Oecetis kateae Wells, 2006

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• Oecetis kateae 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 [116].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-18840 ♂, NT, Jabiru, Town Lake [12°40'S 132°53'E].
  Paratype(s) NTM 2♂ 14♀ (also ANIC), NT, Jabiru, Town Lake [12°40'S 132°53'E]; NTM 22♂ 38♀ (also NMV), NT, Berry Springs [12°42'S 130°58'E]; ANIC 14♂ 23♀, Litchfield National Park, Florence Falls [13°03'S 130°47'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, tube case maker.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults commonly collected beside still waters.

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