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Megaleuctra stigmata (Banks, 1900)

Giant Needlefly

Nomenclature (14)

  • Nemoura stigmata Banks, 1900: 244.

    Holotype; male; MCZ MCZT_11360; deposited at: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ); Canada: Manitoba: Winnipeg; collected in June

  • Megaleuctra spectabilis Neave, 1934: 4.

    Holotype; female; f02bebec-f8e2-4ce9-95d3-092afb33c648; deposited at: Canadian National Collection of Insects (CNCI); Canada: British Columbia: Campbell Creek, Purcell Range

  • Megaleuctra stigmata (Banks, 1900) in Baumann & Stark, 2013: 81.
  • Megaleuctra stigmata (Banks, 1900) in Dosdall & Giberson, 2014: 215.

Nomenclature references (12)

  • Banks, N. (1900) New genera and species of Nearctic Neuropteroid Insects. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 26(3), 239–259. [1899] Available at http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/browse/title/5077659.html
  • Neave, F. (1934) Stoneflies from the Purcell Range, B.C. The Canadian Entomologist, 66(1), 1–6.
  • Claassen, P.W. (1937) New species of stoneflies (Plecoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 10(2), 42–51.
  • Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 82, 1–631.
  • Zwick, P. (1973) Insecta: Plecoptera Phylogenetisches System und Katalog. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 94, 465 pp.
  • Fields, W.C.J. (1977) A new Megaleuctra from California (Plecoptera: Leuctridae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 53, 211–214.
  • Stanford, J.A. & Ward, J.V. (1993) An Ecosystem Perspective of Alluvial Rivers: Connectivity and the Hyporheic Corridor. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 12(1), 48–60.
  • Stewart, K.W. & Oswood, M.W. (2006) The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Alaska and Western Canada. In The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio. vi. + 325.
  • Newell, R.L., Baumann, R.W. & Stanford, J.A. (2008) Stoneflies of Glacier National Park and Flathead River Basin, Montana. In International Advances in the Ecology, Zoogeography, and Systematics of Mayflies and Stoneflies. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. pp. 173–186. Available at http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11081.php
  • Baumann, R.W. & Stark, B.P. (2010) Studies on the Plecoptera of the Kootenay Lake Drainage: A Revisitation of the Stoneflies from the Purcell Range, British Columbia, Canada. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 6(23), 292–302. Available at http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia06-23.pdf
  • Baumann, R.W. & Stark, B.P. (2013) The genus Megaleuctra Neave (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) in North America. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 9(6), 65–93. Available at http://www2.pms-lj.si/illiesia/papers/Illiesia09-06.pdf
  • Dosdall, L.M. & Giberson, D.J. (2014) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Canadian Prairie Provinces. pp. 201–229.

Other references (0)

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1034