Podmosta macdunnoughi
Creators
- 1. Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 42101, USA Department of Biology and Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 84602, USA & scott. grubbs @ wku. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2170 - 9716
- 2. richard _ baumann @ byu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0838 - 4080
Description
8. Podmosta macdunnoughi (Ricker, 1947)
Maritime Forestfly
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(Figs. 4, 55‒60)
Nemoura macdunnoughi Ricker 1947:403. Holotype male (Canadian National Collection), Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nemoura (Podmosta) macdunnoughi: Ricker, 1952:42
Podmosta macdunnoughi: Illies, 1966:219
Nemoura (Podmosta) macdunnoughi: Harper & Hynes, 1971:1137
Nemoura (Podmosta) macdunnoughi: Hitchcock, 1974:100
Distribution. Canada: LB, NB, NF, NS, PE, PQ. USA: ME, MN, NY (DeWalt et al. 2022)
Male. Macropterous. Body length 4.0– 4.8 mm, forewing length 4.7–4.9 mm (n = 3). Gills absent. Cerci simple and unmodified (Figs. 55‒56). Paraprocts undivided as a lightly sclerotized triangular lobe. Epiproct short and complex, anteriorly-recurved fully over abdomen (Figs. 55‒57); dorsal sclerite broadly rounded basally (Figs. 56‒ 58), extending anteriorly as paired lobes sparsely covered by small spinules (Figs. 56‒58) and dorsally as short bifurcated lateral arms (Figs. 57‒58); ventral sclerite narrow basally, laterally expanded in apical ½, overall t-shaped anteriorly, medially concave (Figs. 56‒57).
Female. Macropterous. Body length 5.4–6.5 mm, forewing length 4.8–5.9 mm (n = 6). Gills absent. Cerci simple and unmodified (Figs. 59‒60). Subgenital plate of 8 th tergum scarcely extending over anterior margin of 9 th tergum, with a dark sclerotized medial band that is apically concave (Figs. 59‒60). The 7 th sternum is membranous and barely produced over the anterior margin of the 8 th tergum (Figs. 59‒60).
Larva. Described by Harper & Hynes (1971). Ricker (1947) also provided a partial illustration.
Comments. Podmosta macdunnoughi is the only species of this Holarctic genus distributed in eastern North America (DeWalt et al. 2022).
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Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nemouridae
- Genus
- Podmosta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Plecoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Ricker
- Species
- macdunnoughi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Podmosta macdunnoughi (Ricker, 1947) sec. Grubbs & Baumann, 2023
References
- Ricker, W. E. (1947) Stoneflies of the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, 26, 401 - 414.
- Ricker, W. E. (1952) Systematic Studies in Plecoptera. Indiana University Publications Series, 18, 1 - 200. [http: // www. nativefishlab. net / library / textpdf / 16861. pdf]
- Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich. 82. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 631 pp.
- Harper, P. P. & Hynes, H. B. N. (1971) The nymphs of Nemouridae of eastern Canada (Insecta: Plecoptera). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 49, 1129 - 1142. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / z 71 - 173
- Hitchcock, S. W. (1974) Guide to the insects of Connecticut. Part VII. The Plecoptera or stoneflies of Connecticut. State Geological Natural History Survey of Connecticut, 107, 1 - 262.
- DeWalt, R. E., Maehr, M. D., Hopkins, H. P., Neu-Becker, U. & Stueber, G. (2022) Plecoptera Species File Online. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from: http: // Plecoptera. SpeciesFile. org (accessed 3 July 2022)