Major Group: Insecta
Order: Trichoptera
Family: Hydrobiosidae
Genus: Genus A |
Descriptive Features: body elongate, slender
head capsule sub-rectangular
eyes absent
pair of small ventral sclerites adjacent to occipital margin of head capsule
prosternum with pair of subrectangular sclerites, orientated longitudinally, located towards lateral margins
foreleg with femur broadened apically, without chela, apicoventral spines relatively short, combined length of tibia, tarsus and tarsal claw about equal to femur length, tarsal claw a little longer than combined length of tibia and tarsus
fore trochanter only reaching about half distance along ventral margin of femur
abdominal proleg with lateral sclerite bearing a long ventral seta in apical third
anal claw without basal spine
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Genus A AV1 |
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Taxonomic Checklist: (1 undescribed species) |
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Distribution: Vic
Functional Feeding Group: predators |
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Acheron River, Vic |
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Information Sources: Dean 1997, Dean et al. 2004 |
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