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Leuctra carolinensis Claassen 1923

  • 1. , Boris C. Kondratieff &, R. Edward DeWalt & Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523, U. S. A. E-mail: verdonec @ gmail. com E-mail: boris. kondratieff @ colostate. edu
  • 2. , and Eric J. South & University of Illinois, Prairie Research Institute, Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, Illinois, 61820, U. S. A. E-mail: dewalt @ illinois. edu
  • 3. Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, Illinois, 61801, U. S. A. E-mail: ejsouth @ illinois. edu

Description

Leuctra carolinensis Claassen, 1923

was originally described from Black Mountain, North Carolina and has been reported from adjacent states of South Carolina and Tennessee (Unzicker & McCaskill 1982, Stark et al. 1986, Kondratieff et al. 1995, Stewart & Stark 2002). This species was collected from the type locality of Remenus duffieldi, a 2 nd order stream in the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province of Georgia.

Material examined. Georgia, Towns Co., Soapstone Creek, 2.9 km SE Brasstown Bald, N 34.85588, W 83.78517, 17 May 2017, E.J. South, ♂ (INHS).

Notes

Published as part of Verdone, Chris J., Kondratieff, Boris C., DeWalt, R. Edward & South, Eric J., 2017, Studies On The Stoneflies Of Georgia With The Description Of A New Species Of Soyedina Ricker, New State Records And An Annotated Checklist, pp. 30-49 in Illiesia 13 (3) on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4761063

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
INHS
Event date
2017-05-17
Family
Leuctridae
Genus
Leuctra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Plecoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Claassen
Species
carolinensis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2017-05-17
Taxonomic concept label
Leuctra carolinensis Claassen, 1923 sec. Verdone, Kondratieff, DeWalt & South, 2017

References

  • Claassen, P. W. 1923. New species of North American Plecoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 55 (12): 281 - 292.
  • Unzicker, J. D. & V. H. McCaskill. 1982. Plecoptera. Pp. 5.1 - 5.50. In: Aquatic insects and oligochaetes of North and South Carolina. A. R. Brigham, W. U. Brigham & A. Gnilka (Eds.) Midwest Aquatic Enterprises, Mahomet, Illinois.
  • Stark, B. P., S. W. Szczytko & R. W. Baumann. 1986. North American stoneflies (Plecoptera): systematics, distribution, and taxonomic references. Great Basin Naturalist, 46: 383 - 397. https: // www. jstor. org / stable / pdf / 41712245. pdf
  • Kondratieff, B. C. & C. H. Nelson. 1995. A review of the genus Remenus Ricker (Plecoptera: Perlodidae), with the description of two new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 97 (3): 596 - 602.
  • Stewart, K. W. & B. P. Stark. 2002. Nymphs of North American stonefly genera (Plecoptera). University of North Texas Press (reprint). 400 pp.