A new species of Goera Stephens, 1829 (Goeridae: Trichoptera) from the Solomon Islands

Abstract

Male and female of Goera pitisopai sp. nov. from the Solomon Islands are illustrated and described based on recently collected material. This is the first species of the family Goeridae reported from the Solomon Islands, and the sixth from the Australasian region.

Keywords:

• Trichoptera
• new species
• Goeridae
• Goera
• South-West Pacific
• Solomon Islands

Acknowledgements

We thank Fred Pitisopa (Forestry Department, Honiara), Vaenu Vigulu (Kolombangara Forest Products, Inc.) and all others involved for their help and great enthusiasm during fieldwork on the Solomon Islands.

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Marianne Espeland ^†

†Current address: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.