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species Megaleuctra stigmata (Banks, 1900)

• Common name(s):  Giant Needlefly
• Links:
  • MCZ Type Database
• Distribution:
  •  CAN: AB, BC, MB. USA: CA, MT, WA.
• Ecology:
  • Freshwater, terrestrial. Shredders of decayed tree leaves
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (9):
  • Banks. 1900[1899]. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 26(3):244   >> Nemoura stigmata    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4641
  • Illies. 1966. Das Tierreich 82:171, 172 >> Megaleuctra stigmata    urn:lsid:Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4640
  • Zwick, P. 1973. Das Tierreich 94:393, 394 >> Megaleuctra stigmata
  • Stanford & J. V. Ward. 1993. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 12(1):54 >> Megaleuctra stigmata
  • Stewart & Oswood. 2006. The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio 9 >> Megaleuctra stigmata
  • Newell, Baumann & Stanford. 2008. In Hauer, Stanford & Newell [Ed.]. International Advances in the Ecology, Zoogeography, and Systematics of Mayflies and Stoneflies 178   >> Megaleuctra stigmata
  • Baumann & Stark. 2010. Illiesia 6(23):295   >> Megaleuctra stigmata
  • Baumann & Stark. 2013. Illiesia 9(6):81   >> Megaleuctra stigmata
  • Dosdall & Giberson. 2014. In Cárcamo & Giberson. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands Volume 3: Biodiversity and Systematics Part 1. Biol. Surv. Can. 215 >> Megaleuctra stigmata
• Scrutiny:
  • Hallan, 2006, Neave 1934
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Western Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg; collected in June
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology

• synonym sierra Fields, 1977
• synonym spectabilis Neave, 1934

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