Ecnomina gippslandica Cartwright 2008, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Cartwright, David I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Ecnomidae
Ecnomina
Ecnomina gippslandica

description: <i>Ecnomina gippslandica</i> sp. nov. Figs 162–164, 193 Diagnosis. <i>Ecnomina gippslandica</i> most closely resembles <i>E. serrata</i> and <i>E. sheldoni</i> from which it is distinguished because the superior appendages are not tapered in distal half and also have a small excision apically. Description. Head, body and wings brown; wings similar to <i>E. merki</i> (Fig. 172). Forewing length about 2.9–3.2 times width: male 3.3–3.6 mm, female 3.8 mm. Forewing fork 2 relatively long, sessile, length about 1.4–1.5 times length of fork 3; fork 3 relatively short, with long footstalk, length fork about 2.5–4.6 times length footstalk, footstalk length about 1.2–1.6 times length cross-vein m, r-m and m nearly contiguous at footstalk fork 3, r-m and m separated by about 0.4–0.8 times length of cross-vein m; fork 4 slightly shorter than fork 3; fork 5 long, length about twice length of fork 4. Hindwing length about 3.3 times width, fork 2 sessile, length about 1.6–1.7 times length of fork 3. Male Tergum X membranous, with one pair of robust dorsal processes, relatively widely separated, slightly crenulated meso-distally, about two thirds length of superior appendages (Fig. 164). Superior appendages in lateral view, length about 4 times width, not tapered distally, with small apical excision (Fig. 162); in dorsal view, length about 5 times width, with one pair of long mesal spines and several pairs of shorter spines distally (Fig. 164). Phallus simple, tube-like, robust (Fig. 162). Inferior appendages short; in ventral view, length about half width, fused in basal half, dilated and truncated distally, with small oval excision meso-distally (Fig. 163); in lateral view, slender, slightly curved, length about 5 times width (Fig. 162). Female. Genitalia with a single, elongate, slender mesal process on sternite VIII, with a pair of small semicircular structures at base; segment IX relatively long, tapered slightly distally, segment X relatively short and segments IX and X relatively slender (Fig. 193). <b>Holotype male</b>: Victoria, Back Ck, trib. Cann R., Noorinbee North (about 37°26'S, 149°13'E), UV lt, 10 Dec 2003, D. Cartwright (NMV, T-19870). <b>Paratypes</b>: Victoria. 5 males, 5 females (specimen CT-541 figured), collected with holotype; 1 male (specimen CT-461 figured), Betka R. pumping station, 27 Mar 1974, A.N.; 1 male, Noorinbee North nr Cann R., 30 Dec 1975, M.S. Moulds; 1 male, Tennyson Ck, 5 km NW of Buldah, 37°14'S, 149°07'E, 1–7 Jan 1982, Anzses exped.; 1 male, Buffalo R. at Nug Nug, 15 km S of Myrtleford, 13 Jan 1982, A.W. Other material examined: Victoria. 1 pharate male, 2 females, Back Ck, trib. Cann R., Noorinbee North, UV lt, 10 Dec 2003, D. Cartwright; 1 male, 1 female, Thomson R., Bells Clearing, 2 Dec 1977, NMV Survey (NMV). Etymology. <i>Gippslandica</i> - named for the type locality (East Gippsland, Victoria). Remarks. <i>Ecnomina gippslandica</i> has been collected from six localities in the eastern half of Victoria (latitudinal range 36°42'- 37°40'S).
description: Published as part of <i>Cartwright, David I., 2008, A review of the Australian species of Ecnomina Kimmins and Daternomina Neboiss (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 1774 (1)</i> on pages 68-69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1774.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5124133