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Isoperla montana

Description

Isoperla montana (Banks, 1898)

Montane Stripetail

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Chloroperla montana Banks, 1898:199.

Holotype ♂ (MCZC), Mount Washington, (Coos Co.), New Hampshire

Isoperla montana: Banks 1906:175.

Isoperla montana: Illies 1966:410.

Isoperla montana: Zwick 1973:247, 293.

Isoperla montana: Szczytko & Kondratieff 2015:155.

Material examined. Alabama, Clay Co., tributary to Cheaha Creek, 33.4401, -85.8382, 8 April 2008, A.L. Sheldon, 1♀ (WKUC); Enitachopco Creek, 9 km ESE Millersville, 33.1600, -85.8351, 8 April 2010, S.A. Grubbs, 1♂, 2♀ (WKUC); Tallaseehatchie Creek, 13 km ENE Sylacauga, 33.2058, -86.1194, 8 April 2010, S.A. Grubbs, 1♀ (WKUC); tributary to Tallaseehatchie Creek, 33.1912, -86.1018, 9 April 2012, A.L. Sheldon, 1♀ (WKUC); same but 18 May 2012, A.L. Sheldon, 2♀ (WKUC); Mill Shoals Creek, 33.4197, -85.8071, 11 April 2012, A.L. Sheldon, 1♀ (WKUC); tributary to Tallaseehatchie Creek, 33.1858, -86.0989, 18 May 2012, A.L. Sheldon, 1♀ (WKUC); tributary to Tallaseehatchie Creek, 33.1864, -86.0982, 18 May 2012, A.L. Sheldon, 1♀ (WKUC); Cleburne Co., Shoal Creek, 33.7249, -85.6007, 9 April 2008, A.L. Sheldon, 1♂ (WKUC); tributary to Shoal Creek, 33.7255, -85.6008, 13 April 2012, S.A. Grubbs, 1♀ (WKUC); Talladega Co., Dry Creek, 33.3715, -86.0926, 7 April 2008, A.L. Sheldon, 2♂, 2♀ (WKUC).

Distribution. Canada: NS, ON, PQ. USA: CT, DE, IN, KY, ME, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, VA, WV (DeWalt et al. 2016), AL (new state record).

Comments. Isoperla montana is distributed broadly along the Appalachian Mountains west to Indiana and Minnesota (Szczytko & Kondratieff 2015). The Talladega Mountain region in eastern Alabama marks the known southern limit of the distribution of this common species.

Notes

Published as part of Grubbs, Scott A., 2016, Taxonomic Notes On The Eggs Of Eastern Nearctic Isoperla (Plecoptera: Perlodidae: Isoperlinae), pp. 35-41 in Illiesia 12 (8) on pages 37-39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4757733

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZC , WKUC
Event date
2008-04-07 , 2008-04-08 , 2008-04-09 , 2010-04-08 , 2012-04-09 , 2012-04-11 , 2012-04-13 , 2012-05-18
Verbatim event date
2008-04-07 , 2008-04-08 , 2008-04-09 , 2010-04-08 , 2012-04-09 , 2012-04-11 , 2012-04-13 , 2012-05-18
Scientific name authorship
Banks
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Plecoptera
Family
Perlodidae
Genus
Isoperla
Species
montana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Isoperla montana (Banks, 1898) sec. Grubbs, 2016

References

  • Banks, N. 1898. Descriptions of new species of North American neuropteroid insects. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 25: 199 - 218.
  • Banks, N. 1906. On the perlid genus Chloroperla. Entomological News, 17: 174 - 175.
  • Illies, J. 1966. Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich 82. Walter de Gruyter and Company, Berlin. 632 pp.
  • Zwick, P. 1973. Insecta: Plecoptera, Phylogenetisches System und Katalog. Das Tierreich No. 94. Walter de Gruyter and Company, Berlin.
  • Szczytko, S. W. & B. C. Kondratieff. 2015. A review of the eastern Nearctic Isoperlinae (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) with description of twenty-two new species. Monographs of Illiesia, 1: 1 - 289.
  • DeWalt R. E., M. D. Maehr, U. Neu-Becker, & G. Stueber. 2016. Plecoptera species file online. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available online: http: // Plecoptera. SpeciesFile. org [retrieved 15 June 2016]