New Records And An Updated Checklist Of The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) From Florida
Author
Ray, Donald H.
160 Governmental Center, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Pensacola, Florida 32502, U. S. A. E-mail: donald. ray @ dep. state. fl. us E-mail: rick. abad @ dep. state. fl. us
donald.ray@dep.state.fl.usE-mail
Author
Abad, Rick L.
160 Governmental Center, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Pensacola, Florida 32502, U. S. A. E-mail: donald. ray @ dep. state. fl. us E-mail: rick. abad @ dep. state. fl. us
donald.ray@dep.state.fl.usE-mail
Author
Rasmussen, Andrew K.
Center for Water and Air Quality, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Florida 32307, U. S. A. E-mail: andrew. rasmussen @ famu. edu
andrew.rasmussen@famu.edu
Author
Stark, Bill P.
Box 4045, Department of Biology, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi 39058, U. S. A. E-mail: stark @ mc. edu
stark@mc.edu
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Illiesia
2012
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http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4760597
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Perlesta Shubuta
Stark
Distribution.
Previously known from
Arkansas
,
Illinois
,
Mississippi
,
Missouri
, and
Oklahoma
(
Stark 2004
) and recently reported from
North Carolina
(
Kondratieff et al. 2011
). Our records are the first from
Florida
.
Material examined.
FLORIDA
:
Gadsden Co.
,
Crooked Creek
below CR 270,
N 30°35’1.3”
,
W 84°52’51.4
,
June 2011
,
R
.
Abad, D
. Ray, & A. Rasmussen,
1 adult
with exuviae reared
9 June 2011
,
1 ♂
and
1 larva
.
Remarks.
The dark wingpad larva was collected in a leaf pack near a mountain laurel (
Kalmia latifolia
) growing on a limestone rock. The specimen was fed chironomid larvae during rearing.
Pescador et al. (2000)
reported a male specimen from Blue Springs Creek in Jackson County (adjacent to Gadsden Co.) originally identified as
P. placida
by Frison in 1940 from the Illinois Natural History Survey collection that is probably
P. shubuta
. However, the specimen has slightly shriveled paraprocts making a definitive determination not possible. Both Crooked Creek and Blue Springs Creek are tributaries of the Apalachicola River which has its headwaters located north of Atlanta,
Georgia
in the southern Appalachians.