Species Oecetis spicata Wells, 2004

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oecetis spicata 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 [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Qld, Gunshot Creek at Telegraph Crossing [11°42.9’S 142°20.0’E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC WTH-1390 ♂ 5♀, Qld, Palmer River; NMV ♂, Qld, Seary’s Creek, Rainbow Beach [25°52'S 153°04'E]; NMV 21♂, Qld, Laura, Cape York Peninsula; QM ♂, Bertie Creek, 1 km SE Heathlands HS [11°49.9'S 142°29.0'E]; QM 6♀, Qld, Tributary of Bertie Creek, 250 m SW Heathlands HS [11°45'S 142°35'E]; ANIC ♂, Qld, Cape York Peninsula, Heathlands, Bertie Creek [11°49.9'S 142°29.0'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.

History of changes