Species Triplectides australicus Banks, 1939

Museums

Regional Maps

• Triplectides australica Banks, N. 1939. Trichoptera. pp. 479-504 in Banks, N. New genera and species of neuropteroid insects. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 85: 439-504 [486].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (ex MCZ 22080), Ravenshoe, Atherton Tableland, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Carnarvon (CAR), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lotic freshwater, tube case maker.

Extra Ecological Information

Larger, slow flowing rivers.

General References

Morse, J.C. & Neboiss, A. 1982. Triplectides of Australia (Insecta: Trichoptera: Leptoceridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 43: 61-98 [Date published 8 Oct. 1982] (redescription, distribution)

St Clair, R.M. 1994. Some larval Leptoceridae (Trichoptera) from Southeastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 46: 171-226 [203]

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