Species Oecetis kimberleyensis Wells, 2006

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• Oecetis kimberleyensis 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 [128] [replacement name].
• Oecetis dilata Wells, A. 2004. The long-horned caddisfly genus Oecetis (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) in Australia: two new species groups and 17 new species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 61(1): 85-110 [98, figs 57059, 119] [junior homonym of Oecetis dilata Yang & Morse, 2000].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-18514 ♂, WA, 9 km N of Kununurra.
  Paratype(s) NMV 3♂ 2♀, WA, 9 km N of Kununurra; NMV 2♂, WA, Geikie Gorge [18°06'S 125°42'E]; ANIC 2♂ ♀, McLeod River, 15 km W of Mt Carbine; NMV 2♂, Qld, Cape York Peninsula, Laura [15°33.9'S 144°27.1'E]; ANIC 2♂ 2♀, Qld, Jardine River [11°08'S 142°21'E]; NMV 2♂, NT, Daly River [13°45'S 132°42'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), 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), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, tube case maker.

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