New State Stonefly (Plecoptera) Records For Pennsylvania, With Additional Records And Information On Rare Species
Author
Earle, Jane I.
text
Illiesia
2009
5
16
169
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journal article
6786
10.5281/zenodo.4759416
07c83cbb-d592-43c1-894e-9fbcd0f48339
1854-0392
4759416
Allocapnia zola
Ricker
ranges from
New Brunswick
south to
Virginia and Kentucky
. The only previous
Pennsylvania
records are from 3 small forested creeks in Carbon, Perry, and Westmoreland Counties (
Masteller 1996
).
Allocapnia zola
is found mainly in small clean cold water creeks; however, in
Pennsylvania
it also has been found in medium creeks and in streams receiving alkaline coal mine drainage. Most records are from
Blue Mountain
in southcentral
Pennsylvania
, the southern-most ridge in the Ridge and
Valley Physiographic Province
.
New records:
BEDFORD
: (P)
Fifteenmile Creek
, 1
st
bridge upstream of
Maryland state
line,
20 January 2006
,
2♂
;
Piney Creek
,
PA Rte.
26,
6 February 2005
,
2♂
;
FAYETTE: (O)
Little Champion Creek
, SR 1050,
24 February 1997
,
1♂
;
Champion Creek
,
50 m
downstream of
Little Champion Creek
,
24 February 1997
,
1♂
,
1♀
,
FULTON: (P) Trough Run, PA Rte. 484,
24 March 2006
,
1♂
.