Species Arachnocampa (Campara) girraweenensis Baker, 2010

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• Arachnocampa (Campara) girraweenensis Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March] [32-33].

 

Introduction

The name Arachnocampa (Campara) girraweenensis first published in Baker et al. (2008) is unavailable. The taxonomic descriptions appearing in 'A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa)' (Baker 2010) were intended to be published prior to a molecular phylogenetic study of Australian glow-worms (Baker et al. 2008). However, the molecular study (Baker et al. 2008) was published before the descriptive paper (Baker 2010), and the scientific names of the new taxa described in Baker (2010) were inadvertently used in Baker et al. (2008). Baker et al. (2008) did not fix holotypes for the new species, so the species names used there are not available (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1999, Article 16.4). In order to preserve the link with the taxa referred to in the molecular paper (Baker et al. 2008), the same names are used in Baker (2010) for the formal descriptions of the new subgenus and species.

Morphological differences are evident between the cave and rainforest (epigean) colonies described (including body size, colour and the number of setae on the laterotergite) (Baker 2010). However, these differences are likely to result from the environmental conditions in the habitat in which they live rather than reflect species differences. Larval snares are short despite being in a cave environment.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC)

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Diagnosis

Adult body length 8.5-11 mm (cave ♂♂), 7-8.5 mm (epigean ♂♂), 8-11 mm (cave ♀♀), 7-9 mm (epigean ♀♀); wing length 5-6.2 mm (cave ♂♂), 6-7.2 mm (cave ♀♀), 5-6 mm (epigean ♂♂ and ♀♀); antennae 4-5 mm (cave ♂♂), 2-3 mm (cave ♀♀), 3-3.5 mm (epigean ♂♂), 2 mm (epigean ♀♀). Laterotergite with 0-5 setae. bm-cu curved and angled backwards, 2-4.5 times length of m-cu (cave) (1.8-3.2x epigean). Larvae with 10 and 11 maxillary teeth. Larval head capsule sclerotised brown, body with brown/red pigmentation beginning at anterior end, extending down 30% of lateral edges of body. Malpighian tubules white to pale brown. Larval snares <5 cm.

 

Diagnosis References

Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March] [32]

 

General References

Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March]

Baker, C.H., Graham, G.C., Scott, K.D., Yeates D.K. & Merritt, D.J. 2008. Distribution and phylogenetic relationships of Australian glow-worms Arachnocampa (Diptera, Keroplatidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 506-514