Species Wellsomina stuarti Cartwright, 2010

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• Wellsomina stuarti Cartwright, D.I. 2010. Descriptions of 2 new genera and 13 new species of caddisflies from Australia (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae). Zootaxa 2415: 1-21 [15-16].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T- 20815 male, Northern Territory, Alligator R., Two Mile Hole [12°42'S, 132°09'E].
  Paratype(s) NMV female (Collected with holotype), Northern Territory, Alligator R., Two Mile Hole [12°42'S, 132°09'E]; NMV 1 male, Northern Territory, Katherine R. Gorge Nat. Pk; NMV 2 males, Northern Territory, South Alligator R, UDP Falls; NMV 8 males (Collected in 1978 and 1979), Western Australia, Kimberley, Camp Ck, Mitchell Plateau.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Lotic freshwater.

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] [300] (new records from northern NT)

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