Species Philanisus plebeius Walker, 1852

Philanisus plebeius, adults

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Philanisus plebeius Walker, F. 1852. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 1 pp. 1-192. [116].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (ex Sinclair coll.), Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Betten, C. & Mosely, M.E. 1940. The Francis Walker Types of Trichoptera in the British Museum. London : British Museum 248 pp. [Date published 6/8/1940].

  Type locality references:

  Riek, E.F. 1977. The marine caddisfly family Chathamiidae (Trichoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15(1976): 405-419 [Date published 7 Jan. 1977] [410].
• Anomalostoma alloneura Brauer, F. 1865. Zweiter Bericht über die auf der Weltfahrt der kais. Fregatte Novara gesammelten Neuropteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 415-422 [422].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, Auckland, New Zealand.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mosely, M.E. & Kimmins, D.E. 1953. The Trichoptera (Caddis-flies) of Australia and New Zealand. London : British Museum (Natural History) 550 pp. [Date published 6 Feb. 1953] [132]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: tube case maker.

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Case constructed from coralline sea-weed, in inter-tidal rock pools.

General References

Anderson, D.T., Fletcher, M.J. & Lawson-Kerr, C. 1976. A marine caddis fly, Philanisus plebeius, ovipositing in a starfish, Patiriella exigua. Search 7: 483-484 (oviposition)

Anderson, D.T. & Lawson-Kerr, C. 1977. The embryonic development of the marine caddis-fly, Philanisus plebeius Walker (Trichoptera: Chathamiidae). Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole) 153: 98-105 (embryonic development)

Leader, J.P. 1976. Marine caddis flies (Trichoptera: Philanisidae). pp. 291-302 in Cheng, L. (ed.). Marine Insects. Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Co. (biology)

Mosely, M.E. & Kimmins, D.E. 1953. The Trichoptera (Caddis-flies) of Australia and New Zealand. London : British Museum (Natural History) 550 pp. [Date published 6 Feb. 1953] (larva)

Riek, E.F. 1977. The marine caddisfly family Chathamiidae (Trichoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15(1976): 405-419 [Date published 7 Jan. 1977]

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