Species Triplectides elongatus Banks, 1939

Museums

Regional Maps

• Triplectides elongata 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 22079), Blackheath, Blue Mts, NSW.
• Triplectides dubius Mosely, M.E. & Kimmins, D.E. 1953. The Trichoptera (Caddis-flies) of Australia and New Zealand. London : British Museum (Natural History) 550 pp. [Date published 6 Feb. 1953] [219].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Cradle Mts, TAS.
• Triplectides dubius subalbidus Mosely, M.E. & Kimmins, D.E. 1953. The Trichoptera (Caddis-flies) of Australia and New Zealand. London : British Museum (Natural History) 550 pp. [Date published 6 Feb. 1953] [219].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Hampton, NSW.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [73]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lotic freshwater, tube case maker.

Extra Ecological Information

Small to medium size fast flowing streams.

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)

Neboiss, A. 1977. A taxonomic and zoogeographic study of Tasmanian caddis-flies (Insecta: Trichoptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 1-208 [Date published 4 Apr. 1977] (distribution)

St Clair, R.M. 1994. Some larval Leptoceridae (Trichoptera) from Southeastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 46: 171-226 [195]

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