Perlesta Shubuta Stark
Authors/Creators
- 1. 160 Governmental Center, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Pensacola, Florida 32502, U. S. A. E-mail: donald. ray @ dep. state. fl. us E-mail: rick. abad @ dep. state. fl. us
- 2. Center for Water and Air Quality, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Florida 32307, U. S. A. E-mail: andrew. rasmussen @ famu. edu
- 3. Box 4045, Department of Biology, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi 39058, U. S. A. E-mail: stark @ mc. edu
Description
Distribution. Previously known from Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, and Oklahoma (Stark 2004) and recently reported from North Carolina (Kondratieff et al. 2011). Our records are the first from Florida.
Material examined. FLORIDA: Gadsden Co., Crooked Creek below CR 270, N 30°35’1.3”, W 84°52’51.4, June 2011, R. Abad, D. Ray, & A. Rasmussen, 1 adult with exuviae reared 9 June 2011, 1 ♂ and 1 larva.
Remarks. The dark wingpad larva was collected in a leaf pack near a mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) growing on a limestone rock. The specimen was fed chironomid larvae during rearing. Pescador et al. (2000) reported a male specimen from Blue Springs Creek in Jackson County (adjacent to Gadsden Co.) originally identified as P. placida by Frison in 1940 from the Illinois Natural History Survey collection that is probably P. shubuta. However, the specimen has slightly shriveled paraprocts making a definitive determination not possible. Both Crooked Creek and Blue Springs Creek are tributaries of the Apalachicola River which has its headwaters located north of Atlanta, Georgia in the southern Appalachians.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.4760597 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B20FFF94045FFFEFFFB4FFC68F44FF8F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- R
- Scientific name authorship
- Shubuta Stark
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Plecoptera
- Family
- Perlidae
- Genus
- Perlesta
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Stark, B. P. 2004. Perlidae (The Stones). Pages 61 - 148. In B. S. Stark & B. J. Armitage, editors. The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Eastern North America. Volume II. Chloroperlidae, Perlidae, and Perlodidae (Perlodinae). Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey, New Series Volume 14, Columbus, Ohio. 192 pp.
- Kondratieff, B. C., R. E. Zuellig, and D. R. Lenat. 2011. A new species of Perlesta (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from North Carolina with additional records for North Carolina and Virginia. Illiesia, 7: 297 - 301.
- Pescador M. L, A. K. Rasmussen, & B. A. Richard. 2000. A guide to the stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Florida. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida. 94 pp.