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genus Perlesta Banks, 1906

• Common name(s):  Summer Stones
• Distribution:
  •  
   Eastern North America from NM to ME and south to FL. Perlesta chaoi Wu, 1947 is known from China, but has not been reviewed to establish that is has been placed in the proper genus.
• Ecology:
  • Freshwater, terrestrial. Predators
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (27):
  • Banks. 1906. Canad. Ent. 38:222   >> Perlesta    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:1207
  • Needham & Claassen. 1925. The Thomas Say Foundation II:156, 287   >> Perlesta
  • Frison. 1935. Ill. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 20:384   >> Perlesta
  • Illies. 1966. Das Tierreich 82:347 >> Perlesta
  • Zwick, P. 1973. Das Tierreich 94:278 >> Perlesta
  • Ernst & Stewart. 1985. Can. J. Zool. 63:2962-2968 >> Note: as P. placida >> Perlesta
  • Stark. 1989. Entomol. Scand. 20(3):266   >> Note: Key to adults. >> Perlesta
  • Uchida. 1990. thesis 1-228 >> Perlesta
  • Baker & Sharp Jr. 1998. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 13(2):231   >> Perlesta
  • Kondratieff & Baumann. 1999. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 101(2):325-331 >> Note: Key. >> Perlesta
  • DeWalt, D.W. Webb & Kompare. 2001. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 103(1):207-216 >> Note: Key. >> Perlesta
  • Du, Y-Z. & He. 2001. In Dominguez [Ed.]. Trends in Research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. 369-375 >> Perlesta
  • Grubbs & Stark. 2001. Aquatic Insects 23(2):119-122   >> Perlesta
  • Stark. 2004. In Stark & Armitage. The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of eastern North America. Volume II. Chloroperlidae, Perlidae, Perlodidae (Perlodinae). Ohio Biol. Surv. Bull. New Ser. 14(4):61-148 >> Perlesta
  • Kondratieff, Zuellig, Kirchner & Lenat. 2006. Illiesia 2(5):31-38   >> Perlesta
  • Harp & Robison. 2006. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 60:55 >> Perlesta
  • Grubbs & DeWalt. 2008. Illiesia 4(14):143-149   >> Perlesta
  • Kondratieff, Zuellig, Kirchner & Lenat. 2008. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 110(3):668-673 >> Perlesta
  • Harrison, A.B. & Morse. 2011. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 138(1-2):39 >> Perlesta
  • Sweeney, Battle, Jackson & Dapkey. 2011. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 30(1):195-216   >> Perlesta
  • McPherson, Turner & Whiles. 2013. The Great Lakes Entomologist 46(1-2):42-89 >> Perlesta
  • Murányi & W-H. Li. 2016. Opusc. Zool. Budapest 47(2):191   >> Perlesta
  • Chen, Z-T. & Y-Z. Du. 2018. Zootaxa 4375(1):63   >> Perlesta
  • Yang, D. & W-H. Li. 2018. Species Catalogue of China. Vol. 2. Animals, Insecta (III), Plecoptera 47 >> Perlesta
  • South, DeWalt, M.A. Davis & M.J. Thomas. 2019. ZooKeys 858:45-70   >> Perlesta
  • Valentine & Alford. 2022. Investigation of DNA Variability and Phylogenetic Relationships of Perlesta (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in Mississippi 55 pp. >> Perlesta
  • Hogan & Grubbs. 2022. Ecologies 3:399 >> Perlesta
• Type species:  Perla placida Hagen, by original designation; authority:  Banks. 1906. Canad. Ent. 38:221-224
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species MD-5 [temporary name]
• species group placida (Hagen, 1861)
• species adena Stark, 1989
• species baumanni Stark, 1989
• species bolukta Stark, 1989
• species browni Stark, 1989
• species cinctipes (Banks, 1905)
• species decipiens (Walsh, 1862)
• species frisoni Banks, 1948
• species lagoi Stark, 1989
• species nelsoni Stark, 1989
• species nitida Banks, 1948
• species placida (Hagen, 1861)
• species shubuta Stark, 1989
• species armitagei Grubbs & DeWalt, 2018
• species beatyi Kondratieff, Zuellig & Lenat, 2011
• species bjostadi Kondratieff & Lenat, 2006
• species chaoi Wu, 1948
• species cranshawi Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2006
• species dakota Kondratieff & Baumann, 1999
• species durfeei Kondratieff, Zuellig & Kirchner, 2008
• species ephelida Grubbs & DeWalt, 2012
• species etnieri Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2002
• species fusca Poulton & Stewart, 1991
• species georgiae Kondratieff, Zuellig & Lenat, 2008
• species golconda DeWalt & Stark, 1998
• species leathermani Kondratieff & Zuellig, 2006
• species mihucorum Kondratieff & Myers, 2011
• species ouabache Grubbs & DeWalt, 2011
• species puttmanni Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2003
• species roblei Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2003
• species shawnee Grubbs, 2005
• species spatulata Wu, 1938
• species sublobata South & DeWalt, 2019
• species teaysia Kirchner & Kondratieff, 1997
• synonym napacola DeWalt, 2002
• species xube Stark & Rhodes, 1997

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