Species Orthotrichia muscari Wells, 1983

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• Orthotrichia muscari Wells, A. 1983. New species in the Australian Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera), with observations on relationships and distributions. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 629-649 [Date published 7 Aug. 1983] [638].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-9538 ♂, Middle Claudie River, Iron Range, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: aquatic, lotic freshwater, parasitoid, purse case maker.

General References

Wells, A. 1990. New species and a new genus of microcaddisfly from northern Australia, including the first Australian record of the tribe Stactobiini (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 114: 107-128 (pupal case, distribution)

Wells, A. 1992. The first parasitic Trichoptera. Ecological Entomology 17: 299-302 (larvae found to feed on hydropsychid pupae, living inside host case)

Wells, A. 2005. Parasitism by hydroptilid caddisflies (Trichoptera) and seven new species of Hydroptilidae from northern Queensland. Australian Journal of Entomology 44: 385-391 (information on biology)

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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