Oeconesus lobatus

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Oeconesus lobatus
Male holotype specimen held at Auckland War Memorial Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Trichoptera
Family: Oeconesidae
Genus: Oeconesus
Species:
O. lobatus
Binomial name
Oeconesus lobatus
Wise, 1958

Oeconesus lobatus is a species of caddisfly belonging to the family Hydrobiosidae.[1] The species was first described by Keith Arthur John Wise in 1958,[1] and is endemic to New Zealand.[2]

The species was identified by Wise in 1958, based on a specimen collected from Raurimu in 1919 by C. E. Clarke.[2][3] Some sources such as Ward (1999) consider O. lobatus to be a junior synonym of O. maori.[4]

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