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species Isocapnia grandis (Banks, 1907)

• Common name(s):  Giant Snowfly
• Distribution:
  •  CAN: AB, BC, YK. USA: AK, CA, ID, MT, OR, UT, WA, WY.
• Ecology:
  • Freshwater, terrestrial. Shredders of decayed tree leaves
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (13):
  • Banks. 1907. Canad. Ent. 39(10):329   >> Arsapnia grandis    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4774
  • Banks. 1938. Psyche 45(1):73   >> Isocapnia grandis    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4773
  • Illies. 1966. Das Tierreich 82:156, 158 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Zwick, P. 1973. Das Tierreich 94:383, 384 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Stanford & Gaufin. 1973. Science 185(4152):701 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Stewart & Zeigler. 1984. Aquatic Insects 6(1):57 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Stanford & J. V. Ward. 1993. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 12(1):54 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Zenger & Baumann. 2004. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 2:72   >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Stewart & Oswood. 2006. The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio 8 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Newell, Baumann & Stanford. 2008. In Hauer, Stanford & Newell [Ed.]. International Advances in the Ecology, Zoogeography, and Systematics of Mayflies and Stoneflies 177   >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Nelson, C.H. 2009. Aquatic Insects 31(Supp. 1):527 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Dosdall & Giberson. 2014. In Cárcamo & Giberson. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands Volume 3: Biodiversity and Systematics Part 1. Biol. Surv. Can. 214 >> Isocapnia grandis
  • Kendrick & Huryn. 2014. West.N.Am.Nat. 74(3):278   >> Isocapnia grandis
• Scrutiny:
  • Hallan, 2006, Banks 1938; designated Banks 1938
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Western Canada, Alberta, Banff
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:   multiple Unsexed adults
  • Location of type:  MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology

• synonym fumigata (Claassen, 1937)
• synonym fumosa Banks, 1938

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