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
Taeniopteryx ugola
Ricker and Ross
,
which ranges through the Appalachians from Pennsylvania south to
Georgia
, is generally restricted to the headwaters of cold small and medium sized creeks in Pennsylvania. Only 3 previous records exist, from Cambria and Cumberland Counties (
Masteller 1996
).
Taeniopteryx ugola
,
which appears to be the only
Taeniopteryx
species
collected in Pennsylvania creeks with pH less than 5.5 and with summer-fall stream dry periods, has been most frequently collected from upper Mountain Creek in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
New records:
LEBANON
: (S)
Indiantown Run, PA
Rte. 443 at gap in mountain,
20 February 2004
,
2♂
;
PERRY: (S) Shaeffer Run, 2
nd
Narrows Road,
24 March 1995
,
1♀
(LJ);
SCHUYLKILL: (S)
Catawissa Creek
, Girard Manor Road,
13 January 2004
,
3♂
;
unnamed tributary to
Tomhicken Creek
,
PA Rte.
934,
19 March 2003
,
1♂
.