Species Triplectides magnus (Walker, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptocerus magnus Walker, F. 1852. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 1 pp. 1-192. [73].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4 specimens (Betten, C. & Mosely, M.E. 1940. The Francis Walker Types of Trichoptera in the British Museum. London : British Museum 248 pp. (233) discussed the status of the type series), TAS (as Van Dieman's Land).

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, tube case maker.

Extra Ecological Information

Sluggish streams.

General References

Fischer, F.C.J. 1965. Trichopterorum Catalogus. Amsterdam : Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging Vol. 6 242 pp. (list of 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] (restriction of identity, distribution not outside Australia)

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]

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]

St Clair, R.M. 1994. Some larval Leptoceridae (Trichoptera) from Southeastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 46: 171-226 [210]

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