Costora iena (Great Lakes Caddisfly)

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Great Lakes caddis fly
(Costora iena)

From Great Lake, Shannon River and near Miena, Tasmania.

Costora iena has not been sighted since the hydro development at Great Lakes and Diplectrona castanea was only known in rivers and streams in the Mt Field National Park area but has not been identified since 1936.

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Scientific description

Mosely, Martin E. (1936). Tasmanian Trichoptera or Caddis-Flies. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106: 395-424.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1936.tb08509.x/abstract

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Woinarski, J. C. Z et al. (2019). Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia. Biological Conservation 239: 108261. [Abstract]

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www.threatenedspecieslink.tas.gov.au/Pages/Caddis-Fly-(Great-Lakes).aspx