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Paracapnia opis (Newman, 1839)

Northeastern Snowfly

Nomenclature (16)

  • Chloroperla opis Newman, 1839
  • Paracapnia curvata Hanson, 1946: 237.

    Holotype; male; USNM(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) 5296; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: New York: Arietta; Hamilton Co.; N.Y.

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  • Paracapnia opis (Newman, 1839) in Burton, 2019: 3.
  • Chloroperla opis Newman, 1839 in Myers, Kondratieff, Grubbs, Pett, DeWalt, Mihuc & Hart, 2025: 25.

Nomenclature references (14)

  • Burton, D.K. (2019) Capniidae (Plecoptera) in Canada east of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 36, 1–114.
  • Earle, J.I. (2009) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) from Mount Misery Brook in the New Jersey Pinelands, with Nine New Stonefly Records for New Jersey, U.S.A. Entomological News, 120(2), 157–170. Available at http://https://doi.org/10.3157/021.120.0205
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  • Giberson, D.J. & Garnett, H.L. (1996) Species composition, distribution, and summer emergence phenology of stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from Catamaran Brook, New Brunswick. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 74, 1260–1267.
  • Grubbs, S. & Bright, E. (2003) Arcynopteryx compacta (Plecoptera: Perlodidae), a Holarctic stonefly confirmed from Lake Superior, with a review and first checklist of the stoneflies of Michigan. The Great Lakes Entomologist, 34(2), 77–84. Available at http://www.michentsoc.org/gle-pdfs/vol34no2.pdf
  • Grubbs, S., Pessino, M. & DeWalt, R.E. (2012) Michigan Plecoptera (Stoneflies): distribution patterns and an updated species list. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 8, 162–173.
  • Hanson, J.F. (1946) Comparative morphology and taxonomy of the Capniidae (Plecoptera). The American Midland Naturalist, 35(1), 193–249.
  • Hanson, J.F. (1961) Studies on the Plecoptera of North America: VIII. The identity of the species of Paracapnia. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 56(2), 25–30.
  • Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 82, 1–631.
  • Kondratieff, B.C., Kirchner, R.F. & Lenat, D.R. (1995) A review of stonefly records (Plecoptera: Hexapoda) of North Carolina and South Carolina. Brimleyana, 23, 25–40.
  • Myers, L., Kondratieff, B.C., Mihuc, T.B. & Ruiter, D.E. (2011) The Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the Adirondack Park (New York State). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 137(1+2), 63–140. Available at http://https://doi.org/10.3157/061.137.0118PY
  • Myers, L.W., Kondratieff, B.C., Grubbs, S.A., Pett, L.A., DeWalt, R.E., Mihuc, T.B. & Hart, L.V. (2025) Distributional and species richness patterns of the stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) in New York State. Biodiversity Data Journal, 13(e158952), 1–115. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.13.e158952
  • Newman, E.A. (1839) On the Synonymy of the Perlites, together with brief charaters of the old and of a few new species. Art. IV. Magazine of Natural History, 3(25), 32–37, 84–90. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/magazineofnatura13loud
  • Stark, B.P. & Baumann, R.W. (2004) The winter stonefly genus Paracapnia (Plecoptera: Capniidae). Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist, 2, 96–108. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.3398/1545-0228-2.1.96
  • Tarter, D.C. & Kirchner, R.F. (1980) List of the Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of West Virginia. Entomological News, 91(2), 49–53. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2693425

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