Species Tinodes radona Neboiss, 1990

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tinodes radona Neboiss, A. 1990. The family Psychomyiidae (Trichoptera) re-established in Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 51: 83-86 [84, figs 1-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-10484 ♂, NT, Radon Springs [12°45'S 132°55'E].
  Paratype(s) NMV T-10485–6 ♂ ♀ (genitalia preps PT-1814–5), NT, Radon Springs [12°45'S 132°55'E]; NMV T-10487 ♂, N QLD, Gordon Creek, Iron Range; ANIC 16♂ 2♀ (also NMV), N QLD, 3–13 km ENE Mt Tozer [12°43S 143°18'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Pine Creek (PCK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: lotic freshwater, silk fixed retreat maker.

Extra Ecological Information

Living on rocks in splash zone of waterfalls, on cascades, and just above water level on rocks in streams.

General References

Cartwright, David I. & Dostine, Peter 2022. Five new species and new records of caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from Australia’s ‘Top End’. Zootaxa 5138(3): 283–304 [Date published 18 May 2022] [302] (new records from northern NT)

Wells, A. 1995. Larva, pupa and notes on general biology of Tinodes radona Neboiss (Trichoptera: Psychomyiidae). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 12: 53-59 (descriptions of larvae, pupae and female, and notes 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. [227] (distribution)

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