Review and contribution to the stonefly (Insecta: Plecoptera) fauna of Azerbaijan
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Murányi, Dávid
Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly University, Leányka u. 6, H- 3300 Eger, Hungary.
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Manko, Peter
Department of Ecology, University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, SK- 08001 Prešov, Slovakia.
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Kovács, Tibor
Mátra Museum of Hungarian Natural History Museum, Kossuth Lajos u. 40, H- 3200 Gyöngyös, Hungary.
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Vinçon, Gilles
55 Bd Joseph Vallier, F- 38100 Grenoble, France.
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Žiak, Matej
Andrej Kmeť Museum, Slovak National Museum - Museums in Martin, Andreja Kmeťa str. 20, SK- 03601 Martin, Slovakia.
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Kerimova, Ilhama G.
Institute of Zoology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 504 th block 1128 th Side Str., A. Abbaszadeh Str., AZ- 1073 Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Snegovaya, Nataly Yurievna
Institute of Zoology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 504 th block 1128 th Side Str., A. Abbaszadeh Str., AZ- 1073 Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Oboňa, Jozef
Department of Ecology, University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, SK- 08001 Prešov, Slovakia.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-24
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Perla pallida
Guérin-Méneville, 1843
The species was described without exact locality, mentioned only as ’Caucasus’ (
Guérin-Méneville 1843
).
Walker (1851)
found its types in the Natural History Museum, London (NHM), though they were lacking from the latest catalog (
Kimmins 1970
) and, presumably lost during the 19th century.
Klapálek (1923)
redescribed the species on the basis of specimens from Azerbaijan,
Georgia
and
Turkey
. Though some question the conspecificity of these specimens, they have become de facto
neotypes
on which the present concept of the species is based (e.g.,
Sivec & Stark 2002
). Klapálek’s Azerbaijan specimen was a male collected in Gəncə (Gəncə-Qazax region, original labels: Elisabethop; Kolenati; caucasica / det. Kempny; pallida / Klapálek) and still exists in the Natural History Museum of Wien (NHMW). One of us (DM) studied and compared Klapálek’s specimens with our recent specimens from
Georgia
. Besides the NHMW specimen from the 19th century,
Kasymov (1972)
reported the species from several sites in Gəncə-Qazax (Dəstəfur), Kəlbəcər-Laçın (Kəlbəcər, Tərtərçay River), Lənkəran (Sahgadzhi), Şəki-Zaqatala (Katexçay River) and Yuxarı-Qarabağ regions (Şuşa, Xankəndi).
Sivec & Stark (2002)
considered
P. pallida
to be a species complex that is distributed in the Caucasus,
Anatolia
, the Balkans and the Carpathians.