Australian Museum Journal Systematic position of Trichadenotecnum enderleini (Roesler) (Psocodea: "Psocoptera": Psocidae)
- Shortform:
- Yoshizawa and Smithers, 2006, Rec. Aust. Mus. 58(3): 411–415
- Author(s):
- Yoshizawa, Kazunori; Smithers, C. N.
- Year published:
- 2006
- Title:
- Systematic position of Trichadenotecnum enderleini (Roesler) (Psocodea: "Psocoptera": Psocidae)
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 3
- Start page:
- 411
- End page:
- 415
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.58.2006.1467
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 29 November 2006
- Cover date:
- 29 November 2006
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- INSECTA: PSOCOPTERA; TAXONOMY
- Digitized:
- 29 November 2006
- Available online:
- 29 November 2006
- Reference number:
- 1467
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (30kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (480kb PDF)
Abstract
Trichadenotecnum enderleini (Roesler, 1943) is the only native species of the genus known from Australia to date. However, its exact systematic position is not firmly fixed mainly due to the lack of information on taxonomically and phylogenetically important morphological characters. In this study, T. enderleini is examined morphologically to clarify further its systematic position. The forewing markings and male terminal structures clearly show that the species lacks all apomorphies of Trichadenotecnum Enderlein, 1909 and is thus only distantly related to the genus. Therefore, T. enderleini is excluded from Trichadenotecnum. Ptycta floresensis Endang, Thornton & New, 2002 from Indonesia is considered to be the closest relative of T. enderleini, and T. enderleini is consequently transferred to the genus Ptycta Enderlein, 1925. As a result, Australia is excluded from the distributional range of Trichadenotecnum, except for T. circularoides Badonnel, 1955 considered to be introduced.