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

description: <i>Ecnomina gullea</i> sp. nov. Figs 93–95, 177 Diagnosis. <i>Ecnomina gullea</i> closely resembles <i>E. spinosa</i> and <i>E. legula</i> with relatively long mesally directed digitiform projections on the inferior appendages, and superior appendages with apices narrowly separated, but is separated by superior appendages in lateral view length about 1.5 times width, with usually only one robust ventrally directed bristle or spine on lateral processes of segment IX and relatively robust inferior appendages, in lateral view. Description. Head, body and wings light brown; wings similar to <i>E. legula</i> (Fig. 3). Forewing length about 2.9 times width: male 4.5–5.8 mm, female 4.5–5.5 mm. Forewing fork 2 relatively long, sessile, length about 1.1–1.2 times length of fork 3; fork 3 relatively long, with short footstalk, length fork greater than 8 times length footstalk, footstalk length about 0.5–0.8 times length cross-vein m, r-m and m not contiguous at fork 3 by about 0.5–0.6 times length cross-vein m; fork 4 shorter than fork 3; fork 5 long, length about 1.8 times length of fork 4. Hindwing length about 2.9 times width, fork 2 sessile, length about 1.4–1.5 times length of fork 3. Male. Segment IX with a pair of long lateral processes with only one ventrally directed, relatively long bristle or spine (Fig. 93). Tergum X membranous (Fig. 95). Superior appendages in lateral view, very broad near middle, length about 1.5 times width, narrowed in distal third (Fig. 93); in dorsal view, fused in basal half, relatively slender in distal half, apices narrowly separated (Fig. 95); with a group of stout spines basoventral to base of superior appendages. Phallus generally tube-like, dorso-ventrally flattened (Fig. 93). Inferior appendages in ventral view, fused basally, narrowly separated in distal half, with long meso-distally pointed apices (Fig. 94); in lateral view, short, robust, length about same as width (Fig. 95). Female. Genitalia with a single elongate and relatively robust or bladelike mesal process on sternite VIII, process slightly broadened distally; segment IX relatively long, tapered slightly distally, segment X relatively short and segments IX and X relatively slender (Fig. 177). <b>Holotype male</b>: Victoria, Bells Clearing, 6 km S of Aberfeldy (about 37°51'S, 146°16'E), 8 Feb 1977, A.A. Calder; (NMV, T-19676). <b>Paratypes</b>: Victoria. 3 males, 3 females, collected with holotype; 4 males, 9 females, Thomson R., Knappings Clearing, 11 Feb 1980, Wells and McNamara; 4 males, 3 females, same loc., 9 Dec 1979, Wells and Bailey; 1 male (specimen CT-486 figured), Western Tyers R. on Xmas Ck Rd, 37°54.8'S, 146°15.9'E, 28 Jan 1979, Latrobe C Survey; 1 female (specimen CT-489 figured), Tanjil R. on Moe-Gooding Rd, 38°8.4'S, 146°15.9'E, 6 Feb 1980, Latrobe C Survey (NMV). Other material examined: Victoria. 2 males, 1 female, Aire R., Hopetoun Falls, 4 km S of Beech Forest, 28 Jan 1982, A.N.; 4 males, 2 females, Charleys Ck, 5 km S of Gellibrand, Victree pine plantation, 29 Jan 1982, A.N; 1 female, Gellibrand R. at Asplin Ck jn, 28 Jan 1982, A.N.; 1 female, Lardners Ck, 4 km SE of Gellibrand- Jackson track, 26 Jan 1982, A.N.; 3 males, 1 female, Yarra R., Warburton East, 17 Feb 1976, A.N.; 1 male, Yarra R., OShannassy Rd, 9 Feb 1981, J. Dean and D. Cartwright; 1 female, Acheron R., 3.5 km ESE Narbethong, 15 Feb 1983, R. St Clair et al.; 6 males, 2 females, Kinglake West, 29 Dec 1953, A.N.; 2 males, Latrobe R. at Hawthorn Ck jn, 9 Feb 1980, collector?; 1 female, Latrobe R., 9.8 km W of Noojee, 37°53.4'S, 145°54.1'E, 21 Jan 1979, Latrobe C Survey; 1 male, Bells Clearing, 6 km S of Aberfeldy, 9 Feb 1977, A.A. Calder; 1 male, 4 females, Howqua R., 12 km S of Merrijig, 18 Jan 1978, J.Blyth; 1 male, Ladies Bath Falls, Porepunkah, 25 Feb 1955, A.N.; 3 males, Porepunkah, 25 Feb 1955, A.N.; 8 males, same loc. and collector, 27 Jan 1957; 2 males, 1 female, Mt Buffalo, about 1385 m, 1 Feb 1957, A.N.; 3 males, 3 females, Lake Catani, Mt Buffalo, 6 Dec 1982, A.N.; 1 male, L. Catani below weir, Mt Buffalo Nat. Pk, 5 Dec 1982, A.N. and A.W.; 2 females, Eurobin Falls, Mt Buffalo Rd, 3 Dec 1982, A.N.; 1 female, Eurobin Ck d/s falls, Mt Buffalo Rd bridge, 9 Jan 1980, J. Dean?; 1 male, Sassafras Gap, 13 Feb 1963, A.N.; 5 males, 4 females, Cobungra R. at Anglers Rest, 4 Feb 1974, A.N.; 2 males, same loc., 15 Jan 1982, A.W.; 9 males, 5 females, Gibbo R. at Exhibition Ck jn, 20 km N of Benambra, 16 Jan 1982, A.W.; 3 males, 1 female, Nariel, 29 Jan 1957, A.N.; 1 male, same loc. and collector, 12 Feb 1963; 5 males, Towong, 29 Jan 1957, A.N.; 1 male, Macalister-Barkly jn, Lyndon Flat, 6 Dec 1977, NMV Survey. New South Wales. 1 male, Crackenback R. d/s Kosciusko Rd, 19 Jan 1976, J. Dean. Etymology. <i>Gullea</i> - anagram of <i>legula</i>. Remarks. <i>Ecnomina gullea</i> is common and widespread throughout Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales (latitudinal range 36°08' - 38°39'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 44-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1774.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5124133