Stoneflies - Plecoptera: Leuctridae of Gunnison County, ColoradoParaleuctra vershina - Summit NeedleflyGaufin and Ricker 1974Updated 7 January 2026
TSN 102899 Good LinksOn this website:Introduction to Leuctridae Paraleuctra sara Other Websites: Photos, Map, Taxon Identifier Numbers - from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Paraleuctra vershina at Gbif Photos, Map, Museum specimens, DNA - Barcodinglife.org ReferencesBaumann,RW; Gaufin,AR and Surdick,RF 1977 The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Rocky Mountains. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 31. PDFQuote from page 102: " This species occurs abundantly in creeks and rivers. The adults emerge from March to August. " Illustrations on page 101; Figure 329 cercus, 330 male terminalia, dorsal view; 331 female terminalia, ventral view. Bottorff,RL and Bottorff,LD 2007 Phenology and diversity of adult stoneflies (Plecoptera) of a small coastal stream, California. Illiesia 3(1)1-9 Pdf 292 Kb Duffield,RM and Nelson,CH 1998 Stoneflies (Plecoptera) in the diet of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis Mitchell) in Libby Creek, Wyoming, USA. Hydrobiologia 380, 59-65. Although collected as adults in the streamside vegetation, Paraleuctra vershina was not found in the stomach contents of the trout living in the stream. Gaufin,AR and Ricker,WE 1974 Additions and corrections to a list of Montana stoneflies. Entomological News 85: 285-288. Kondratieff,BC and Baumann,RW 2002 A review of the stoneflies of Colorado with description of a new species of Capnia (Plecoptera: Capniidae). Transactions of American Entomological Society 128 (3) 385-401. Quote from page 391: "Stark et al. (1973) reported this species as P. sara (Claassen), a species now considered restricted to eastern North America (Stark and Kyzar, 2001). Paraleuctra vershina is the most common and widespread species of the genus in Colorado, occurring throughout the Mountain and Plateau regions (Gaufin and Ricker, 1974, Baumann et al. 1977). Females can be collected as late as August at higher elevations." McKnight,DM and Feder,GL 1984 The ecological effect of acid conditions and precipitation of hydrous metal oxides in a Rocky Mountain stream. Hydrobiologia, 119, pp.129-138. PDF Ricker,WE 1992 Origin of stonefly names proposed by Ricker and collaborators. Perla, 18(1) 12 pages. PDF Quote from page 8: "vershina Gaufin and Ricker 1975. Russian vershina = summit referring to the mountainous country where the species occurs." Ruse,LP and Herrmann,SJ 2000 Plecoptera and Trichoptera species distribution related to environmental characteristics of the metal-polluted Arkansas River, Colorado. Western North American Naturalist 60 (1) 57-65. PDF Stark,BP and Kyzar,JW 2001 Systematics of nearctic Paraleuctra with description of a new genus (Plecoptera:Leuctridae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 144 (1) 119-135. PDF The authors split Pomoleuctra from Paraleuctra. They provide excellent photos of the double mesoternal y-ridge stem of Paraleuctra, male terminalia of both genera and keys to Pomoleuctra and Paraleuctra adult males. Stark,BP; Oblad,BR and Gaufin,AR 1973 An annotated list of the Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Colorado Part I. Entomological News 84 9, 269-277. Discussed as Paraleuctra sara. Zuellig,RE; Heinold,BD; Kondratieff,BC and Ruiter,DE 2012 Diversity and Distribution of Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, 1873-2010. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 606, 257 p. PDF - caution 46MB Quote from page 47: "A Western North American stonefly that is common in the mountainous part of the SPRB and Colorado (Baumann and others, 1977; Kondratieff and Baumann, 2002)." The elevation range is 5,400-11,150 feet and the adults emerge from May-July. Brown,WS 2004 Plecoptera or Stoneflies of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA www.gunnisoninsects.org "We're approaching spring when Mother Nature begins to liquidate her frozen assets." --Anonymous |