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Catoxyethira kunenica Mey & de Moor 2019

  • 1. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia. & alice. wells @ csiro. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5581 - 6056 & http: // zoobank. org / urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 0 D 7 A 8359 - 1249 - 4 DED- 9 D 5 F-DBF 5 FCD 17876
  • 2. Department of Freshwater Invertebrates, Albany Museum, Somerset St., Grahamstown, South Africa & Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa & South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa & National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, 20 Loch Avenue, Parktown 2193 South Africa & f. demoor @ ru. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4624 - 7191 & http: // zoobank. org / urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 03 D 33129 - 9858 - 468 E-B 38 F-E 84 F 0 EBE 654 A

Description

Catoxyethira kunenica Mey & de Moor

(Fig. 1)

Catoxyethira kunenica Mey & de Moor, 2019: 141, figs 4–6.

Material examined. ANGOLA: 1 male, [CAW 820J], Huambo Province, Cubango River, Site 10—downstream of main rapids, light trap, -13.045, 16.37523, 8/v/2017, I.S. Ferreira & M. Mlambo.

Diagnosis. Distinguished among similar members of the Catoxyethira mali -group by ‘… the architecture of segments IX and X and the position of the elongate spines on the ventral and dorsal corner of segment VIII’ (Mey & de Moor 2019).

Description. Male. (See Mey & de Moor 2019)

Remarks. This record extends further to the north the known range of this species, described from the Kunene River in Namibia by Mey and de Moor (2019). Females were included among the paratypes listed for this species, however they were not described.

Notes

Published as part of Wells, Alice & De Moor, Ferdinand C., 2020, Hydroptilidae (Trichoptera) of Angola, a new genus, seven new species, and five new records, pp. 495-514 in Zootaxa 4868 (4) on page 497, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4868.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4418036

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2017-05-08
Verbatim event date
2017-05-08
Scientific name authorship
Mey & de Moor
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trichoptera
Family
Hydroptilidae
Genus
Catoxyethira
Species
kunenica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Catoxyethira kunenica Mey, 2019 sec. Wells & Moor, 2020

References

  • Mey, W. & de Moor, F. C. (2019) The Trichoptera (Insecta) of the lower Kunene River in Namibia and Angola. Zoosymposia, 14, 134 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zoosymposia. 14.1.16