<p class="Body" align="left"><strong>Micro-caddisfly faunas of Australia and the southwest Pacific (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)</strong></p>

Abstract

Today's distributions of faunal groups reflect historic events—geological and evolutionary, as well as dispersals, extinctions and chance events. The extent to which each of these contributed to the hydroptilid faunas of mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu is explored by comparison of the faunal composition, geology and geography of Australia and these SW Pacific islands. Corroborative evidence is sought from other groups, flora as well as fauna.

A review of the New Guinea species of Chimarra Stephens (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae)

“…In the Australasian biogeographical region, 143 Chimarra species have been described previously: 28 from Australia (Cartwright, 2002;Neboiss, 2003), 77 from New Guinea (Morse, 2018;Oláh, 2012a, not 16-17 as included in table 1; Wells and Johanson, 2016), 27 from the Fiji islands (Johanson and Oláh, 2012;Morse, 2018), 11 from the Solomon Islands (Johanson and Espeland, 2010) and one from New Caledonia (Johanson and Espeland, 2010;Morse, 2018; contra the 105 species of Wahlberg and Johanson, 2014). The description of 49 new species in this paper (from only 94 specimens) brings the regional total to 192, or nearly one quarter of the world's known Chimarra fauna.…”

“…He noted that 16 species of Chimarra were recorded from New Guinea (as illustrated in Neboiss, 1986a), but there were no Chimarra species in common between any two of the three regions. Wells and Johanson (2016) revisited Neboiss' (1984) work and updated his totals with current estimates. They noted only 17 species of Philopotamidae (all Chimarra?…”