Austrotinodes pandus, DI Cartwright, 2009

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), Zootaxa 2142 (1), pp. 1-19 : 16-17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2142.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5333814
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/11126232-FFA7-F355-7DB8-871CFC8EFCE2
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Austrotinodes pandus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Austrotinodes pandus sp. nov.

Figs 34–36 View FIGURES 31–36 , 40 View FIGURES 37–40

Diagnosis. Austrotinodes pandus can be distinguished from closely related species A. gorom and A. camurus in having inferior appendages in ventral view, not fused basally and in lateral view, narrowing slightly apically.

Description. Head, body and wings brown; wings similar to A. yalga ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 8–15 ). Forewing length about 3.2–3.4 times width: male 5.0– 6.2 mm. Fork 2 long, with footstalk, footstalk length about 0.9–1.5 times length of cross-vein r-m, length fork about 1.1 times length of fork 3; fork 3 long, length about 2.7–3.2 times length footstalk, footstalk length about 2.1 times length cross-vein m. Hindwing length about 3 times width; fork 2 with short footstalk, footstalk length about 0.9–1.6 times length cross-vein r-m, fork length about 1.1–1.2 times length of fork 3.

Male. Tergum X membranous with a pair of small mesal processes ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 31–36 ). Superior appendages in lateral view, slender, straight, length about 5 times width, with pair of dorsal processes basally, with about two spines subapically ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 31–36 ); in dorsal view, length about 4 times width, broadened slightly near middle ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 31–36 ). Phallus robust, generally tube-like, with embedded spines; with a pair of long, strongly curved, slender processes (phallic guides) arising from near the base of the inferior appendages ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 31–36 ). Inferior appendages in ventral view, not fused basally, with paired widely separated truncated apices ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 31–36 ); in lateral view, narrowing gradually apically with pointed apices ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 31–36 ).

Female. Female genitalia with a pair of sub-triangular lobes, fused basally; segment IX relatively long tapered slightly distally, segment XI relatively very short with pairs of cerci and papillae; segments IX and X have scattered pairs of ‘spiny-hairs’ ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 37–40 ).

Holotype male: Queensland, Birthday Ck below falls, Mt Spec State Forest , 760m, 18°57'S, 146°10'E, lt tr., 6 Jul 1994, A.L. Sheldon ( NMV, T- 20379). GoogleMaps

Paratypes: Queensland. 1 male (specimen CT-440 figured), Birthday Ck above weir, Mt Spec State Forest , 820m, 18°57'S, 146°10'E, lt tr., 13 Nov 1993 GoogleMaps , A.L. Sheldon; 1 female (specimen CT-511 figured), same loc. and collector, 30 Oct 1993 ( NMV) .

Etymology. Pandus - Latin, bent, curved (dorso-basal processes near bases of inferior appendages).

Remarks. Only two males of A. pandus have been collected from adjacent sites in the Mt Spec State Forest, north-eastern Queensland (Latitude 18°57'S).