Wellsomina
Creators: name: Cartwright, David I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Ecnomidae
Wellsomina

description: Key to males of species of Wellsomina from Australia
1 Inferior appendages each with apex undivided (Fig. 10); N-NT...................................................................... W. baru
- Inferior appendages each with apex divided or bifid distally (Figs 13, 16) ............................................................... 2
2 Superior appendages each with 2 subequal branches- a horizontal one and a ventrally directed one (Fig. 12); NE-Qld ............................................................................................................................................................................ W. tam
- Superior appendages each without 2 equal branches, although may have ventral projections (Figs 15, 18) .............. 3
3 Inferior appendages each with pair of apical processes relatively widely separated (Fig. 16); N-WA ........ W. bucera
- Inferior appendages each with pair of apical processes relatively narrowly separated (Figs 19, 22) ......................... 4
4 Inferior appendages each without rounded or squared shoulder at base of apical process (Figs 19, 22) .................... 5
- Inferior appendages each with rounded or squared shoulder at base of apical process (Figs 25, 34) ......................... 6
5 Inferior appendages fused to form straight-sided plate (Fig. 19); N-WA................................................ W. naumanni
- Inferior appendages fused to form round-sided plate (Fig. 22); N-WA............................................................ W. thigi
6 Inferior appendages each with squared shoulder at base of apical process (Figs 25, 28) .......................................... 7
- Inferior appendages each with rounded shoulder at base of apical process (Figs 34, 37) .......................................... 9
7 Superior appendages with long spinose setae apically (Fig. 26); N-NT, N-WA (Kimberley and Pilbara) ..... W. saeta
- Superior appendages without long spinose setae apically (Figs 29, 32) ................................................................... 8
8 Fused inferior appendages length about same as width, broadest in apical half (Fig. 28); N-WA.................. W. furca
- Fused inferior appendages length about 1.5 times width, broadest in basal half (Fig. 31); N-NT.............. W. gumurr
9 Fused inferior appendages length about 6 times length of apical processes (Fig. 34); N-NT, N-WA........... W. stuarti
- Fused inferior appendages length about 4 times length of apical processes (Figs 37, 40) ......................................... 10
10 Superior appendages broad-based, tapered apically, with long spiny setae at apices (Figs 36, 38); N-WA .................. .................................................................................................................................................................. W. jalgoodoo
- Superior appendages not broad-based, tapered apically, without long spiny setae at apices (Figs 39, 41)................ 11
11 Fused inferior appendages, excluding apical processes, length about same as width (Fig. 40); NE-Qld .. W. ampulla
- Fused inferior appendages, excluding apical processes, length about twice width (Fig. 43); N-NT, N-WA W.mattina
description: Published as part of Cartwright, David I., 2010, Descriptions of 2 new genera and 13 new species of caddisflies from Australia (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae), pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2415 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.194387