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Paraleuctra occidentalis (Banks, 1907)

Western Needlefly

Nomenclature (26)

  • Leuctra occidentalis Banks, 1907: 329.

    Syntype; MCZ MCZT_11370; deposited at: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ); Canada: Alberta: Laggan, Alta. August 23 ; Ainsworth July 11; Bear Lake July 29

  • Leuctra bradleyi Claassen, 1923: 257.

    Holotype; male; CUIC CU Type Number 1205; deposited at: Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC); Canada: British Columbia: Emerald Lake, Canadian Rockies

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  • Paraleuctra occidentalis (Banks, 1907) in Dosdall & Giberson, 2014: 215.
  • Paraleuctra occidentalis (Banks, 1907) in Baumann, Sheldon & Bottorff, 2017: 42.

Nomenclature references (21)

  • Banks, N. (1907) A list of Perlidae from British Columbia and Alberta. The Canadian Entomologist, 39(10), 325–330. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/canadianentomolo39ento
  • Baumann, R.W. & Stark, B.P. (2009) Paraleuctra alta (Plecoptera: Leuctridae), a new stonefly from Alberta, Canada. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 5(4), 30–33. Available at http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia05-04.pdf
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  • 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., Sheldon, A.L. & Bottorff, R.L. (2017) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Nevada. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist, 10(1), 1–138. Available at http://doi.org/10.3398/042.010.0101
  • Cary, S.J. & Jacobi, G.Z. (2008) Zoogeographic affinities of southwestern USA Plecoptera. In International Advances in the Ecology, Zoogeography, and Systematics of Mayflies and Stoneflies. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. pp. 133–157. Available at http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11081.php
  • Claassen, P.W. (1923) New species of North American Plecoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 55, 257–263, 281–292. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88627#page/565/mode/1up
  • Dosdall, L.M. & Giberson, D.J. (2014) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Canadian Prairie Provinces. pp. 201–229.
  • Hanson, J.F. (1941) Studies on the Plecoptera of North America, II. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 36(2), 57–66. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50573848
  • Heinold, B.D. (2010) The Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
  • Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 82, 1–631.
  • Kondratieff, B.C. & Baumann, R.W. (2002) A review of the stoneflies of Colorado with description of a new species of Capnia (Plecoptera: Capniidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 128(4), 385–401.
  • Neave, F. (1934) Stoneflies from the Purcell Range, B.C. The Canadian Entomologist, 66(1), 1–6.
  • Nebeker, A.V. & Gaufin, A.R. (1966) New Paraleuctra from the Rocky Mountains (Plecoptera: Leuctridae). Entomological News, 77(9), 255–259.
  • Needham, J.G. & Claassen, P.W. (1925) A Monograph of the Plecoptera or Stoneflies of America North of Mexico. The Thomas Say Foundation, II, 1–397. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/monographofpleco00need
  • 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
  • Ricker, W.E. (1952) Systematic Studies in Plecoptera. Indiana University Publications Science Series, 18, 1–200.
  • Ricker, W.E. (1954) Nomenclatural notes on Plecoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 51, 37–39.
  • Stark, B.P. & Kyzar, J.W. (2001) Systematics of Nearctic Paraleuctra with description of a new genus (Plecoptera: Leuctridae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 144, 119–135. Available at http://www.nev.nl/tve/pdf/te0144119.pdf
  • Stewart, K.W. & Oswood, M.W. (2006) The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Alaska and Western Canada. In The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio. vi. + 325.
  • Vieira, N.M.K., Kondratieff, B.C., Ruiter, D.E. & Durfee, R.S. (2009) The aquatic insects of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, Sandoval County, New Mexico, excluding Diptera, with notes on new state records. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 82(3), 250–262.
  • Zuellig, R.E., Heinold, B.D., Kondratieff, B.C. & Ruiter, D.E. (2012) Diversity and distribution of mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), and caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, 1873–2010. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series, 606, 257 pp.

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Etymology:

Latin: western.