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species Despaxia augusta (Banks, 1907)

• Common name(s):  Autumn Needlefly
• Links:
  • MCZ Type Database
• Distribution:
  •  
   CAN: AB, BC. USA: AK, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA.
• Ecology:
  • Freshwater, terrestrial. Shredders of decayed tree leaves
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (11):
  • Banks. 1907. Canad. Ent. 39(10):330   >> Leuctra augustus    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4627
  • Needham & Claassen. 1925. The Thomas Say Foundation II:224   >> Leuctra augusta
  • Ricker. 1952. Ind.Univ.Pub.Sci.Ser. 18:172 >> Note: States that Leuctra bradleyi Claassen, Can. Ent. 55, p. 257 is a junior synonym of L. augusta. >> Leuctra (Paraleuctra) augusta
  • Ricker. 1954. Proc. ent. Soc. B. C. 51:37 >> Note: States that the Banks specimen is a female, creates synonymy of L. glabra, discusses N & C 1925 illustration of female as misleading, note illustrations by Neave 1929 and Ricker 1952. He also states that there are two cotypes of augusta in the MCZ, not one as in his 1952 paper. >> Leuctra (Despaxia) augusta    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:516855
  • Illies. 1966. Das Tierreich 82:77 >> Despaxia augusta    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4626
  • Zwick, P. 1973. Das Tierreich 94:394 >> Despaxia augusta
  • Stewart & Oswood. 2006. The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio 8, 240 >> Despaxia augusta
  • Newell, Baumann & Stanford. 2008. In Hauer, Stanford & Newell [Ed.]. International Advances in the Ecology, Zoogeography, and Systematics of Mayflies and Stoneflies 178   >> Despaxia augusta
  • Nelson, C.H. 2009. Aquatic Insects 31(Supp. 1):527 >> Despaxia augusta
  • Dosdall & Giberson. 2014. In Cárcamo & Giberson. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands Volume 3: Biodiversity and Systematics Part 1. Biol. Surv. Can. 214 >> Despaxia augusta
  • Baumann, Sheldon & R.L. Bottorff. 2017. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 10(1):41   >> Despaxia augusta
• Scrutiny:
  • Hallan, 2006, Ricker 1943
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Western Canada, British Columbia, Port Renfrew; 10th August
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology

• synonym glabra (Claassen, 1923)

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