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Alloperla petasata Surdick 2004

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Alloperla petasata Surdick

replaces Alloperla caudata Frison in its northern and eastern range in North America including Pennsylvania (Surdick 2004). Alloperla petasata ranges from the Canadian Maritimes south to Georgia; its sister species, A. caudata, is now restricted to Illinois, the Ozark- Ouachita Highlands, and the Lower Tennessee River in Alabama (Surdick 2004) and Mississippi (Willett and Stark 2009).

New records: BEDFORD: (P) Blackberry Lick Run, PA Rte. 26, 9 June 2001, 1♂, 4♀; Blues Gap Run, 400 m east of Rte. T-323, 9 June 2001, 2♂, 3♀; INDIANA: (O) Little Yellow Creek, PA Rte. 259, 21 June 2000, 8♂, 3♀ (TWS), as Alloperla sp. in Yasik et al. (2002); PIKE: (D) Carley Brook, 1.5 km upstream of village of Carley Brook, 8 July 2003, 1♂ (TD). These sites are small forested creeks except for Little Yellow Creek, which is a 3rd order creek whose watershed has surface coal mines with alkaline mine drainage.

Notes

Published as part of Earle, Jane I., 2009, New State Stonefly (Plecoptera) Records For Pennsylvania, With Additional Records And Information On Rare Species, pp. 169-181 in Illiesia 5 (16) on page 176, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4759416

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Biodiversity

Event date
2000-06-21
Verbatim event date
2000-06-21/2003-07-08
Scientific name authorship
Surdick
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Plecoptera
Family
Chloroperlidae
Genus
Alloperla
Species
petasata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Alloperla petasata Surdick, 2004 sec. Earle, 2009

References

  • Surdick, R. F. 2004. Chloroperlidae (The Sallflies). pp. 1 - 60. In: B. P. Stark and B. J. Armitage, editors. Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Eastern North America. Volume II. Chloroperlidae, Perlidae, and Perlodinae (Perlodidae). Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series, Volume 14. Columbus, Ohio. 192 pp.
  • Willett, M. R. & B. P. Stark 2009. The Alloperla leonarda group of eastern North America, with SEM images of four out-group species (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Illiesia, 5: 108 - 127.