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species Capnia vernalis Newport, 1848

• Common name(s):  Vernal Snowfly
• Distribution:
  •  CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NT, NU, ON, PQ, SK. USA: AK, CO, ID, MI, MN, MT, NM, NV, UT, WI, WY.
• Ecology:
  • Freshwater, terrestrial. Shredders of decayed tree leaves
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (22):
  • Newport. 1848. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 36:388   >> Capnia vernalis    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4886
  • Barnston. 1848. In Newport. Postscript to On the Anatomy and affinities of Pteronarcys regalis, Newm. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 36:388 >> Perla vernalis    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4887
  • Hagen. 1861. Smith. Misc. Coll. 33   >> Capnia vernalis
  • Needham & Claassen. 1925. The Thomas Say Foundation II:256   >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • Walker, J. D. . 1947. Ohio Jour. Sci. 47:136   >> Note: Again, the same specimen is listed from Franklin Co. (Blacklick Creek) as was referenced in Gaufin (1956). No such specimen exists. Removed from list of Ohio Plecoptera >> Capnia vernalis
  • Gaufin. 1956. Ohio Jour. Sci. 56(6):323   >> Note: Listed from Franklin Co., collected by L. S. Roach and supposedly at the INHS, but no specimen exists. Capnia vernalis has been removed from the Ohio list. >> Capnia vernalis
  • Illies. 1966. Das Tierreich 82:149 >> Capnia vernalis
  • Kimmins. 1970. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Ent. 24(8):352   >> Capnia vernalis
  • Zwick, P. 1973. Das Tierreich 94:380 >> Capnia vernalis
  • Nelson, C.R. & Baumann. 1989. Gr. Bas. Nat. 49(3):340, 342, 343   >> Capnia vernalis
  • Kondratieff & Baumann. 1994. Perla 12:18 >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • Giberson & Garnett. 1996. Can. J. Zool. 74:1262 >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • Kondratieff & Baumann. 2002. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 128(4):389 >> Capnia vernalis
  • Grubbs & Bright. 2003. The Great Lakes Entomologist 34(2):78   >> Note: New record: MI. >> Capnia vernalis
  • Stewart & Oswood. 2006. The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio 28, 48 >> Capnia vernalis
  • Cary & Jacobi. 2008. In Hauer, Stanford & Newell [Ed.]. International Advances in the Ecology, Zoogeography, and Systematics of Mayflies and Stoneflies 141   >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • Heinold. 2010. Master's Thesis 98 >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • Grubbs, Pessino & DeWalt. 2012. Illiesia 8:165 >> Capnia vernalis
  • Zuellig, Heinold, Kondratieff & Ruiter. 2012. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 606:39 >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • Dosdall & Giberson. 2014. In Cárcamo & Giberson. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands Volume 3: Biodiversity and Systematics Part 1. Biol. Surv. Can. 213 >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • DeWalt & South. 2015. ZooKeys 532:145   >> Capnia (vernalis) vernalis
  • Baumann, Sheldon & R.L. Bottorff. 2017. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 10(1):34   >> Capnia vernalis

• synonym limata Frison, 1944
• synonym tenuis (Walker, 1852)

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