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Leuctra laura Hitchcock, 1969 ✕

Hampshire Needlefly

Nomenclature (20)

  • Leuctra grandis Banks, 1906: 338.

    Syntypes (n= 2); unsexed adult; b3112953-6412-48fd-82d4-de4511a9bda8; deposited at: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ); United States: North Carolina: Black Mts.

  • Leuctra laura Hitchcock, 1969: 313.

    Holotype; male; USNM(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) USNM 70772; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: New Hampshire: Coos: [Coos Co.] Cutler's Brook; base of Tuckerman's Ravine; N.H. [44.26348 -71.27634]

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  • Leuctra laura Hitchcock, 1969 (subjective synonym of Leuctra grandis Banks, 1906) in Grubbs, Hogan, Myers & DeWalt, 2025: 2010. Classification
  • Leuctra grandis Banks, 1906 in Myers, Kondratieff, Grubbs, Pett, DeWalt, Mihuc & Hart, 2025: 28.

Nomenclature references (19)

  • Banks, N. (1906) New Species of Perlidae. The Canadian Entomologist, 38, 335–338. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/canadianentomolo38ento
  • DeWalt, R.E. & Heinold, B.D. (2005) Summer emerging Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera of Abrams Creek, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 107(1), 34–48.
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  • Griffith, M.B. & Perry, S.A. (1992) Plecoptera of Headwater Catchments in the Fernow Experimental Forest, Monongohela National Forest, West Virginia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 94(2), 282–287.
  • Grubbs, S. (1997) New Records, Zoogeographic Notes, and a Revised Checklist of Stoneflies (Plecoptera) from Maryland. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 123(1/2), 71–84. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25078627
  • Grubbs, S. (2011) A review of stonefly (Insecta; Plecoptera) taxonomic research in Alabama, with new state records and an updated checklist. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 7(2), 24–30. Available at http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia07-02.pdf
  • Grubbs, S.A. & Sheldon, A.L. (2018) The stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) of the Talladega Mountain region, Alabama, USA: distribution, elevation, endemism, and rarity patterns. Biodiversity Data Journal, 6(e22839), 1–40. Available at http://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e22839
  • Grubbs, S.A. (2018) An update on the stonefly fauna (Insecta, Plecoptera) of Maryland, including new and emended state records and an updated state checklist. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 14(4), 65–80. Available at http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia14-4.pdf
  • Grubbs, S.A., Hogan, P.N., Myers, L.W. & DeWalt, R.E. (2025) Taxonomic evaluation of Leuctra laura Hitchcock (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) negates the need for a conservation assessment. Journal of Natural History, 59(29–32), 2007–2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2514891
  • Harper, P.P. & Harper, F. (1997) The genus Leuctra Stephens in North America: a preliminary report. In Ephemeroptera & Plecoptera, Biology–Ecology–Systematics. MTL - Mauron+Tinguely & Lachat SA, Fribourg, Switzerland. pp. 467–472.
  • Hitchcock, S. (1969) Plecoptera from high altitudes and a new species of Leuctra (Leuctridae). Entomological News, 80(12), 311–316. Available at http://https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2740752
  • Hogan, P.N. & Grubbs, S.A. (2022) Distributional Trends and Species Richness of Maryland, USA, Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera), with an Emphasis on the Appalachian Region. Ecologies, 3(3), 395–421. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecologies3030029
  • Kondratieff, B.C. & Kirchner, R.F. (1987) Additions, taxonomic corrections, and faunal affinities of the stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Virginia, USA. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 89(1), 24–30. Available at http://https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16262424
  • Kondratieff, B.C., Verdone, C.J. & Roble, S.M. (2017) New records of stoneflies (Plecoptera) from Virginia, U.S.A. Perla, 35, 22–27. Available at http://plecoptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Plecoptera/LitArchive/PerlaNo35_2017.pdf
  • 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
  • Nelson, C.H. (2009) Surface ultrastructure and evolution of tarsal attachment structures in Plecoptera (Arthropoda: Hexapoda). Aquatic insects, 31(Supp. 1), 523–545.
  • Neves, R.J. (1978) Seasonal Succession and Diversity of Stoneflies (Plecoptera) in Factory Brook, Massachusetts. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 86(3), 144–152. Available at http://https://www.jstor.org/stable/25009110
  • Tarter, D.C. & Nelson, C.H. (2010) New state, county, and drainage basin records of West Virginia (USA) stoneflies (Plecoptera). Entomological News, 121(2), 159–162. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3157/021.121.0206
  • Zwick, P. (1973) Insecta: Plecoptera Phylogenetisches System und Katalog. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 94, 465 pp.

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