Catoxyethira kunenica Mey & de Moor 2019
Authors/Creators
- 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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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