Plecoptera Species List (Provisional) of Gunnison County, Colorado

Plecoptera (Stonefly) Species List for Gunnison County, Colorado

Updated 27 April 2016

More information from the Plecoptera Species File hosted by the Illinois Natural History Survey

Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Plecoptera
Suborder Arctoperlaria
Group Euholognatha

Nemouridae introduction
- Amphinemura banksi
- Malenka coloradensis
- Malenka flexura
- Podmosta delicatula
- Prostoia besametsa
- Zapada cinctipes
- Zapada haysi
- Zapada oregonensis
Taeniopterygidae introduction
- Doddsia occidentalis
- Taenionema pacificum
- Taenionema pallidum

Capniidae introduction
Leuctridae introduction
- Paraleuctra vershina
- Perlomyia utahensis

Group Systellognatha

Pteronarcyidae
- Pteronarcella badia
- Pteronarcys californica

Perlodidae Introduction
- Isoperla fulva
- Isoperla longiseta
- Isoperla mormona
- Isoperla quinquepunctata
- Isoperla pinta
- Isoperla sobria
- Cultus aestivalis
- Diura knowltoni
- Isogenoides colubrinus
- Isogenoides elongatus
- Isogenoides zionensis
- Kogotus modestus
- Megarcys signata
- Pictetiella expansa
- Skwala americana
Perlidae introduction
- Acroneuria abnormis
- Hesperoperla pacifica
- Claassenia sabulosa
Chloroperlidae Introduction

Sources for Gunnison County records

Alexander,KD; Stewart,KW 1999 Revision of genus Suwallia Ricker (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Transactions of American Entomological Society 125 3, 185-250.

Baumann, RW, Gaufin,AR, Surdick, RF 1977 The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Rocky Mountains. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 31, 1-208.

DeWalt,RE; Maehr,MD; Neu-Becker,U and Stueber,G 2017 Plecoptera Species File Online. Version 5.0/5.0. [5Aug2017]. .

Kondratieff, BC. and RW. Baumann (coordinators). 2003 Stoneflies of the United States. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. This website has disappeared as of 2015.

USGS National Water Quality Assessment Data Warehouse (NAWQA) Data as of 1Sep2005

Peckarsky, BL Dodson,SI, Conklin, DJ 1985 A key to the aquatic insects of streams in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, including chironomid larvae from streams and ponds. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver CO. 47 pages.

Stark,BP; Oblad,P; Briant,R and Gaufin,AR 1973 An annotated list of the stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Colorado Part 1. Entomological News 84:269-277.

Brown,WS 2004 Plecoptera or Stoneflies of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
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