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order Plecoptera

• Common name(s):  Stonefly
• Images: (10) See all images
• Links:
  • Tree of Life
  • Illiesia International Journal of Stonefly Research
  • Iberfauna
  • Canadian National Collection Insect Specimen Database
  • Illinois Natural History Survey Insect Collection Database
  • EU Freshwater Ecology
• Distribution:
  •  All continents except Antarctica; absent from large deserts and permanently ice-covered areas.
• Ecology:
  • Freshwater, terrestrial.
• Citations (166):
  • Burmeister. 1839. Handbuch der Entomologie 2(2):863   >> Note: Plecoptera
  • Needham & Claassen. 1925. The Thomas Say Foundation II:1-397   >> Note: Key to the families.
  • Claassen. 1940. Mem. Cornell agric. Exp. Sta. 232:1-235
  • Illies. 1966. Das Tierreich 82:1-631
  • Zwick, P. 1973. Das Tierreich 94:1-465
  • Illies. 1974. N. Z. J. Zool. 1(3):286   >> Note: Key to adults and larvae.
  • Hynes. 1976. Annu.Rev.Entomol. 21:135-153  
  • Hynes. 1977. Freshw. Biol. Assoc. Sci. Pub. 17:1-92
  • Baumann, Gaufin & Surdick. 1977. Mem. Am. Entomol. Soc. 31:1-208 >> Note: Key to the families.
  • Winterbourn. 1978. N. Z. J. Zool. 5:157-170  
  • Lager, M. D. Johnson, S. N. Williams & J. L. McCulloch. 1979. The Great Lakes Entomologist 12(3):109-114
  • Ormerod & Tyler. 1986. Bird Study 33:36-45  
  • Ormerod & Tyler. 1987. Bird Study 34(1):43-51  
  • Brittain. 1990. In Campbell [Ed.]. Mayflies and Stoneflies: Life Histories and Biology. Proceedings of the 5th International Ephemeroptera Conference and the 9th International Plecoptera Conference. Ser. Entomol. 44:1-12
  • Ricker. 1992. Perla 2:1-12 >> Note: Ricker discusses origins of names proposed by him for Plecoptera
  • Harding. 1992. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 26(1):95-102  
  • Braioni. 1994. Italian Journal of Zoology 61(4):415-424  
  • Harding & Winterbourn. 1995. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 29(4):479-492  
  • Landolt & Sartori [Ed.]. 1997. Ephemeroptera & Plecoptera, Biology–Ecology–Systematics 569 pp.
  • Grubbs. 1997. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 123(1/2):71-84  
  • Paller & Specht. 1997. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 12(3):367-378  
  • Casas. 1997. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 12(1):39-49  
  • Harman. 1997. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 12(3):465-476  
  • Kim, Bae & Zhiltzova. 1998. Korean J. Biol. Sci. 2(4):419-425
  • Mangum. 1999. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 14(1):125-135  
  • Zwick, P. 2000. Annu.Rev.Entomol. 45:709-746
  • Scarsbrook, Boothroyd & Quinn. 2000. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 34:289-302  
  • Hall, Closs & Riley. 2001. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 35:591-603  
  • Stewart & Stark. 2002. Caddis Press 102 >> Note: Key to families of North America, Nymphs
  • Ward, J. V., Kondratieff & Zuellig. 2002. University Press of Colorado 53 >> Note: Keys to stonefly genera and illustrations of several species.
  • Duggan, Collier & Lambert. 2002. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 36(1):117-128  
  • Vinson. 2003. Ecography 26:751-767
  • Miserendino & Pizzolon. 2003. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 37:525-539  
  • Duggan, Scarsbrook & Quinn. 2003. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 37(1):23-29  
  • Fochetti, Amici & Argano. 2003. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 18(3):437-444  
  • Maxted, B. F. Evans & Scarsbrook. 2003. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 37(4):793-807  
  • Olifiers, Dorville, Nessimian & Hamada. 2004. Zootaxa 651:1-15
  • Sivec & Yule. 2004. In Yule & Yong. Freshwater Invertebrates of the Malaysian Region. Academy of Sciences Malaysia 443-456
  • Grubbs & J.M. Taylor. 2004. Hydrobiologia 520:19-28  
  • Béthoux. 2005. Illiesia 1(9):52-81  
  • Grimaldi & Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects 194-196 >> Note: Plecopterida: Plecoptera
  • DeWalt, Favret & D.W. Webb. 2005. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 98:941-950 >> Note: Discussion of decline of stonefly assemblage in Illinois
  • Stewart & Sandberg. 2006. In Drosopoulos & Claridge. Insect Sounds and Communication: Physiology, Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution 179-186
  • Stewart & Oswood. 2006. The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio vi. + 325 >> Note: Key to the families.
  • Koese. 2007. Entomol. Tab. I 1-158
  • Studinski & Grubbs. 2007. Hydrobiologia 575:211-220  
  • Fochetti & Tierno de Figueroa. 2008. Hydrobiologia 595:365-377  
  • Stewart & Stark. 2008. In Merritt, Cummins & Berg [Ed.]. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, 4th edition 311-384 >> Note: Key to the families.
  • Alibozek & Ganger. 2008. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23(4):673-676  
  • Stark, Froehlich & del Carmen Zúñiga. 2009. In Adis, Arias, Golavatch, Wantzen & Rueda-Delgado [Ed.]. Aquatic Biodiversity of Latin America (ABLA). 5:1 >> Note: Treatment of S. Am. stoneflies, including bilingual (Spanish & English) , illlustrated key at the family and generic level. Provides a list of species.
  • DeWalt. 2009. In Likens [Ed.]. Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. Oxford: Elsevier 2:415-422
  • Staniczek. 2009. Aquatic Insects Supplement 1 31:1-747
  • Zwick, P. 2009. In Staniczek. International Perspectives in Mayfly and Stonefly Research, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ephemeroptera and the 16th International Symposium on Plecoptera, Stuttgart, 2008. Aquatic Insects Supplement 1 31:181-194
  • Sheldon & Warren Jr. 2009. Freshw. Sci. 54:943-956
  • Nelson, C.H. 2009. Aquatic Insects 31(Supp. 1):523-545
  • Progar & Moldenke. 2009. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 24(1):53-66  
  • Heinold. 2010. Master's Thesis
  • James, D. A., Ranney, Chipps & Spindler. 2010. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 25(2):235-241  
  • Montz, Hirsch, Rezanka & Staples. 2010. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 25(4):575-587  
  • Béthoux, Y. Cui, Kondratieff, Stark & Ren. 2011. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11(248):1-12  
  • Menninger. 2011. Scientific American Blog 2/24/2011  
  • Storey, Parkyn, Neale, Wilding & Croker. 2011. N. Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 45(2):231-248  
  • Gazendam, Gharabaghi, F. C. Jones & Whiteley. 2011. Canadian Water Resources Journal 36(2):149-158  
  • Mundahl & Hunt. 2011. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 26(4):445-457  
  • Grubbs. Date unknown. Aquatic Ecology 45:185-195
  • Krno, Žiak, Lánczos, Beracko, Sporka & Thomkova. Date unknown. Biologia (Bratislava) 76(12):3659-3669
  • Hynes. 1940. Trans. R. Ent. Soc. London 91(10):471 >> Note: Keys to the genera.
  • Petersen, I., Winterbottom, Orton, Friberg, Hildrew, Spiers & Gurney. 1999. Freshwater Biol. 42:401-416
  • Zuellig, Kondratieff & Rhodes. 2002. West.N.Am.Nat. 62(1):59-72
  • Parker, Flint Jr., Jacobus, Kondratieff, McCafferty & Morse. 2007. Southeastern Naturalist Special Issue 1:159-174
  • Finlayson, Somer & Vinson. 2010. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 30:102-111
  • Sivaramakrishnan, Arunachalam, Sundar & Selva Kumar. 2011. In Tyagi & Veer. Entomology Ecology & Biodiversity 105-118
  • Petrin, Brittain & Saltveit. 2013. Freshw. Sci. 32(2):425-437  
  • Culp, Brua, Benoy & Chambers. 2013. Canadian Water Resources Journal 38(2):85-98  
  • Shah, D. N., Domisch, Pauls, Haase & Jähnig. 2014. Freshw. Sci. 33(4):1136-1147
  • Qian, Hai-Yan Wu, Ji, W. Yu & Y-Z. Du. 2014. PloS ONE 9(1):e86328
  • Sandberg, L. E. Serpa & Drake. 2015. Illiesia 11(6):51
  • Tierno de Figueroa, Luzón-Ortega & Lopez-Rodriguez. 2015. Iberfauna. El Banco de Datos de la Fauna Ibérica. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)  
  • Hershkovitz, Dahm, A. W. Lorenz & Hering. 2015. Ecological Indicators 50(2015):150-160
  • Krno, Lánczos & Šporka. 2015. Biologia 70(9):1215-1227
  • DeWalt, Kondratieff & Sandberg. 2015. In Thorp, J. H. & Rogers [Ed.]. Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology: Fourth Edition. Elsevier, Inc. 1:933-949
  • Feeley, Baars, Lysaght & Kelly-Quinn. 2016. The Stonefly (Plecoptera) of Ireland - Distribution, Life Histories & Ecology 82 pp.
  • Darilmaz, Salur, Murányi & Vinçon. 2016. Zootaxa 4074(1):1-74  
  • McCulloch, G.A., Wallis & Waters. 2016. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 96:150-160
  • Yoshimura & Takemon [Ed.]. 2016. Biology of Inland Waters Supplement 3
  • Nelson, C.H. 2016. In Yoshimura & Takemon [Ed.]. International Progress in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera Research, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Ephemeroptera and the 17th International Symposium on Plecoptera, Wakayam, Japan, 3-9 June 2012. Biology of Inland Waters Supplement 3:67-81
  • McColloch, Wallis & Waters. 2016. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 96:150-160  
  • Lalonde, Garron & Mercier. 2016. Cogent Environmental Science 2(1):1136099: 12 pages  
  • Anzani, Krisanti & Wardiatno. 2016. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences 9(1):128
  • DeWalt, Grubbs, Armitage, Baumann, S.M. Clark & Bolton. 2016. Biodiversity Data Journal 4:e10723: 70 pgs.
  • Adkins, Barton, Grubbs, Stringer & Kolka. 2016. Water 8:261: 15 pgs.
  • Bossley & Smiley Jr. 2017. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 32(1):727-740  
  • Strzelec, Bialek & Spyra. 2018. Bologia 73(6):577-588  
  • Azmi, Hussin & Amin. 2018. Journal of Sustainability Science and Management 13(1):67-76
  • Tierno de Figueroa, J. Martinez, L. Martin & M. Gonzalez. 2018. Boletin de la SEA 62:155-162 >> Note: New record.
  • Carlson, P. E., Donadi & Sandin. 2018. Journal of Applied Ecology 55(4):1896-1907
  • Timpano, Schoenholtz, Soucek & Zipper. 2018. Ecological Indicators 91:645-656
  • Fierro, Arismendi, Hughes, Valdovinos & Jara-Flores. 2018. Ecological Indicators 91:13-23  
  • Herbst, Cooper, Medhurst, Wiseman & Hunsaker. 2018. Hydrobiologia 820(1):115-133
  • Tiwari & Rachlin. 2018. Northeastern Naturalist 25(3):460-478
  • Le Doare. 2018. Insectes 190:31-34
  • Costas, Pardo, Mendez-Fernandez, Martinez-Madrid & Rodriguez. 2018. Ecological Indicators 93:207-218
  • Bogan & S. M. Carlson. 2018. Illiesia 14(8):144-154  
  • Valente-Neto, Rodrigues & Roque. 2018. Ecological Indicators 94(1):198-206
  • Ferreira Ribeiro, J. M. & Meira Dos Santos. 2018. Zootaxa 4514(4):563-572
  • Frantz, P. B. Wood & Merovich Jr. 2018. PloS ONE 13(11):e0206077
  • Coppa, Le Doare, Ferrand, Leroy & Brulin. 2018. Ephemera 19(2):95-124
  • Galeano-Rendon & Mancera-Rodriguez. 2018. Revista de Biologia Tropical 66(4):1721-1740
  • DeWalt, Yoder, E. A. Snyder, Dmitriev & Ower. 2018. Biodiversity Data Journal 6:e30256
  • South, DeWalt & Y. Cao. 2018. Hydrobiologia
  • Hohmann & Kuttner. 2018. Veröffentlichungen des Naturkundemuseums Potsdam 4:29-37
  • Chen, Z-T. & Y-Z. Du. 2018. Zootaxa 4375(1):59-74  
  • Mtow & Machida. 2018. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 76(1):65-86
  • Babu, Sivaramakrishnan, Subramanaian & Selvakumar. 2018. 429-444
  • Poff, E.I. Larson, Salerno, S.G. Morton, Kondratieff, Flecker, Zamudio & Funk. 2018. Ecology Letters 21:525-535
  • South, DeWalt & Y. Cao. 2019. Hydrobiologia 829(1):323-340
  • Sint, Kaufmann, R. Mayer & Traugott. 2019. Molecular Ecology 28(2):336-347
  • Kondratieff, DeWalt & Verdone. 2019. ZooKeys 819:243-254
  • Ding, W-H. Li, Ying Wang, Cameron, Murányi & D. Yang. 2019. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 135(2019):123-135
  • Cao, J., Ying Wang, Y-R. Huang & W-H. Li. 2019. ZooKeys 835:43-63
  • DeWalt & Ower. 2019. Insects 10(99)
  • DeWalt & Kondratieff. 2019. In Merritt, Cummins & Berg [Ed.]. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America, 5th Ed. 429-520
  • DeWalt & Resh. 2019. In Thorp, J. H., Rogers & Damborenea [Ed.]. Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Palaearctic Fauna, 4th Ed. 566-641
  • Tierno de Figueroa & Lopez-Rodriguez. 2019. The European Zoological Journal 86(1):79-102  
  • Horvath, Egri, Meyer-Rochow & Kriska. 2019. Historical Biology An International Journal of Paleobiology 10.1080/08912963.2019.1663843: 12 pages  
  • Agboola, C. T. Downs & O'Brien. 2019. Ecological Indicators 106:105465
  • Valan, Makonyi, Maki, Vondracek & Ronquist. 2019. Systematic Biology 68(6):876-895
  • Chen, Z-T. 2019. Illiesia 15(8):111-117
  • Hohmann & Spitzenberg. 2019. Lauterbornia 86:195-209
  • Berlin. 2019. Lauterbornia 86:175-194
  • Chen, Z-T. 2019. Zoosymposia 16:062-087
  • Fochetti. 2020. Zootaxa 4722(4):381-388
  • Min & D-S. Kong. 2020. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 35(1):323-347  
  • South, Skinner, DeWalt, Kondratieff, K. P. Johnson, M.A. Davis, J. J. Lee & Durfee. 2020. Syst. Entomol. 2020:DOI: 10.1111/syen.12462
  • Du, Y-Z. 2020. Chinese Journal of Applied Entomology 57(2):284-297
  • Chen, Z-T., Jiang & Y-S-Y. Li. 2020. Zootaxa 4751(2):345-356
  • dos Santos, M.R., Saito, Zaitune Pamplin, Pereira & Fonseca-Gessner. 2020. Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia 32:e20
  • Takeshita, Hayashi & Yokomizo. 2020. Environmental Pollution 265(A):115059:10 pages
  • Sivaruban, Barathy, Srinivasan & Isack. 2020. Acta Aquatica Turcica 16(4):558-570
  • Feeley, Baars, Kelly-Quinn & B. Nelson. 2020. Ireland Red List 13:3-17
  • CÍbik, Beracko, Krno & Derka. 2020. Entomofauna carpathica 32(1):153-164
  • Hwang, J. M. & Murányi. 2020. Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity 36(1):46-54
  • Ferreira, S., Tierno de Figueroa, Martins, Verissimo, Quaglietta, Grosso-Silva, Lopes, Sousa, Pauperio, Fonseco & Beja. 2020. Biodiversity Data Journal 8(e55137):15 pages
  • Erasmus & Huber. 2020. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 117:64-68
  • Amiruddin & Suhaila. 2020. Malaysian Applied Biology 49(5):81-87
  • Pohe, B.J. Smith & Ball. 2020. Unpublished report for the Department of Conservation 29 p.
  • Fochetti. 2020. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences 10.1016/B978-0-12-821139-7.00014-3: 8 pages
  • Ravizza, C., Vinçon & Reding. 2020. Boll. Soc. ent. Ital. 152(3):115-132
  • South, Skinner, DeWalt, M.A. Davis, K. P. Johnson, Teslenko, J.J. Lee, Malison, J. M. Hwang, Bae & Myers. 2021. Insect Systematics and Diversity 5(4):1-27
  • Beracko, Krno & Lánczos. 2021. Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology 21(1):164-176
  • Feeley & Macadam. 2021. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 133(1):55-58
  • Costa, R.L. Ferreira & Pellegrini. 2021. Limnetica 40(1):79-91
  • South, Skinner, DeWalt, Kondratieff, K. P. Johnson, M.A. Davis, J. J. Lee & Durfee. 2021. Syst. Entomol. 46:287-305
  • Cao, J., Ying Wang, X. Guo, Guoquan Wang, W-H. Li & Murányi. 2021. Journal of Insect Science 21(1):1-6
  • McRoberts & Grubbs. 2021. Biodiversity Data Journal 9:e62242  
  • Ruehr, van de Kamp, Farago, Hammel, Wilde, Borisova, Edel, Frenzel, Baumbach & Blanke. 2021. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 288(1953):1-9
  • Bowman & R. F. Smith. 2021. Insects 12:770:17 pages
  • Newman, Evan A., DeWalt & Grubbs. 2021. Diversity 13:672: 18 pages  
  • Letsch, S. Simon, Frandsen, Shanlin Liu, Machida, C. Mayer, Misof, Niehuis, X. Zhou & Wipfler. 2021. Syst. Entomol. 46:952-967
  • Negishi, Nakagawa & F. Nakamura. 2021. Aquatic Ecology 10.1007/s10452-021-09914-w: 6 pages
  • Lee, D-Y., D-S. Lee, S-J. Hwang, K-L. Lee & Y-S. Park. 2022. Global Ecology and Conservation 34:e02030: 12 pages
  • Hlebec, Sivec, Podnar & Kucinic. 2022. PeerJ 10:e13213:32 pages
  • Jouault, Nel, Legendre & Condamine. 2022. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(4):4: 14 pages
  • Prevec, Nel, Day, Muir, Matiwane, Kirkaldy, Moyo, Staniczek, Cariglino, Maseko, Kom, Rubidge, Garrouste, A. Holland & Barber-James. 2022. Communications Biology 5:1154: 14 pages
  • Huo, B-Q. Zhu, Murányi, Tierno de Figueroa, M.-Y. Zhao, Y-N. Xiang, Y-B. Yang & Y-Z. Du. 2022. Insects 13:1102: 9 pages
  • Macadam, Feeley & Doe. 2022. Freshw. Biol. Assoc. Sci. Pub. 73 216 >> Note: Complete identification manual. Each species has its own account of diagnostic characters, habitat and ecology, conservation status, feeding ecology, distribution (with shaded regional map) and lots of great photographs of live and preserved nymphs and adult.
• Scrutiny:
  • DeWalt, 2010, Some discrepency regarding the treatment of taxa proposed by Zwick with that presented in Species File is found. See Zwick's (2000) Figure 1. Note placement of Taeniopterygidae, Nemouromorpha, Leuctroidea.

• synonym Neuroptera
• synonym Perlaria
• synonym Perlariae
• synonym Perlarides
• synonym Perlida
• synonym Perlidae
• synonym Perlides
• synonym Perlina
• synonym Perlites
• suborder Antarctoperlaria
• synonym Gondwanoperlaria
• superfamily Eusthenioidea Banks, 1913
• superfamily Gripopterygoidea Enderlein, 1909
• suborder Arctoperlaria
• synonym Filipalpia
• infraorder Euholognatha
• infraorder Systellognatha
• family †Perspicuusoperlidae
• family †Gulouidae Béthoux, Cui, Kondratieff, Stark & Ren, 2011
• genus †Gulou Béthoux, Cui, Kondratieff, Stark & Ren, 2011
• family †Perlapsocidae Pinto & Pineiro, 2000
• genus †Perlapsocus Pinto & Pineiro, 2000
• family †Perlopseidae Martynov, 1940
• synonym Perlopsididae Martynov, 1940
• genus †Perlopsis Martynov, 1940
• genus †Fluminiperla Lin, 1980
• species †hastis Lin, 1980
• genus †Idiastogyia Lin, 1986
• species †fatisca Lin, 1986
• genus †Kaptsheranga Sinitshenkova, 1985
• species †porrecta Sinitshenkova, 1985
• genus †Marciperla Lin, 1986
• species †curta Lin, 1986
• genus †Mesonotoperla Riek, 1954
• species †sinuata Riek, 1954
• genus †Thaumatophora Riek, 1976
• species †pronotalis Riek, 1976

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