Austrotinodes mubar Cartwright, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Cartwright, David I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Ecnomidae
Austrotinodes
Austrotinodes mubar

description: <i>Austrotinodes mubar</i> sp. nov. Figs 16–18, 38 <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Austrotinodes mubar</i> separates from the other group members in that the superior appendages in lateral view are relatively slender and tapered in apical half; in dorsal view, with subapical mesal process, forming a shallow concavity with apex. <b>Description.</b> Head, body and wings brown; wings similar to <i>A. yalga</i> (Fig. 14). Forewing length about 2.9–3.2 times width: male 5.8–6.2 mm. Forewing fork 2 long, with footstalk, footstalk about twice the length of cross-vein r-m, length fork about same length as fork 3; fork 3 long, length fork about 2.8–3.1 times length footstalk, footstalk length about 1.8 times length cross-vein m. Hindwing length about 3 times width; fork 2 footstalk short, length about 0.9–1.2 times length cross-vein r-m, fork about same length as fork 3. Male. Tergum X membranous with a pair of slender, straight processes (Fig. 18). Superior appendages in lateral view, relatively slender and tapered in apical half, with short ventro-mesal process with group of four long spines (Fig. 16); in dorsal view, length about 3 times width, with subapical mesal process, forming a shallow concavity with apex, extensive membranous area mesal to superior appendages (Fig. 18). Phallus generally tube-like, slightly bulbous apically (Fig. 16); with a dark bifid process (phallic guide) arising from near the base of the inferior appendages. Inferior appendages in ventral view, small, paired ‘talon-like’ processes, bases widely separated (Fig. 17); in lateral view, length about same as width, very broad and rounded laterally near the middle, narrowed subapically, with rounded apex (Fig. 16). Female. Female genitalia with a pair of slender lobes with small mesal processes meso-basally; segment IX relatively long, tapered slightly distally, segment XI relatively very short with pair of cerci and papillae; segments IX and X have scattered pairs of ‘spiny-hairs’ (Fig. 38). <b>Holotype male</b>: New South Wales, Gloucester Tops (about 32°04'S, 151°25'E), el. 1280 m, 4–30 Dec 1988, malaise, D. Bickel (NMV, T- 20361). <b>Paratypes</b>: New South Wales. 1 male (specimen PT-1802 figured), 1 female, collected with holotype; 1 female (specimen CT-495 figured), same site and collector as holotype, 19 Nov– 4 Dec 1988; 1 female, Gloucester Tops 32°04'S, 151°34'E, el. 1300 m, 2-3 Dec 1988, Theischinger and Mueller (NMV). <b>Etymology.</b> <i>Mubar</i> - Aboriginal word for spine (superior appendages). <b>Remarks.</b> This species is known from only two male and three female specimens collected from the type locality in north-eastern New South Wales (latitude 32°04'S).
description: Published as part of <i>Cartwright, David I., 2009, Austrotinodes Schmid, a South and Central American caddisfly genus, newly recorded in Australia, with the description of new species (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae), pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 2142 (1)</i> on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2142.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5320938