species

Taeniopteryx nivalis (Fitch, 1847)

Boreal Willowfly

Taeniopteryx nivalis (Fitch, 1847): Nymph and adult. Wisconsin R., WI, Mar. 2009. (Otu).

Nomenclature (30)

Nemoura nivalis Fitch, 1847: 279. (valid)
Nemoura nivalis Fitch, 1847 in Needham & Claassen, 1925: 240.
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Nemoura nivalis Fitch, 1847 in Hogan & Grubbs, 2022: 400.
Nemoura nivalis Fitch, 1847 in Myers, Kondratieff, Grubbs, Pett, DeWalt, Mihuc & Hart, 2025: 45.

Nomenclature references (29)

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Bednarik, A.F. & McCafferty, W.P. (1977) A checklist of the stoneflies, or Plecoptera, of Indiana. The Great Lakes Entomologist, 10(4), 223–226. Available at http://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol10/iss4/9
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Cao, Y., DeWalt, R.E., Robinson, J.L., Tweddale, T. & Pessino, M. (2013) Using Maxent to model the historic distributions of stonefly species in Illinois streams: The effects of regularization and threshold selections. Ecological Modeling, 259, 30–39.

DeWalt, R.E. & Grubbs, S. (2011) Updates to the stonefly fauna of Illinois and Indiana. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 7(3), 31–50. Available at http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia07-03.pdf

DeWalt, R.E., Cao, Y., Tweddale, T., Grubbs, S.A., Hinz, L., Pessino, M. & Robinson, J.L. (2012) Ohio USA stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera): species richness estimation, distribution of functional niche traits, drainage affiliations, and relationships to other states. ZooKeys, 178, 1–26. Available at http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/2616/ohio-usa-stoneflies-insecta-plecoptera-species-richness-estimation-distribution-of-functional-niche-traits-drainage-affi

Dosdall, L.M. & Giberson, D.J. (2014) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Canadian Prairie Provinces. pp. 201–229.

Fitch, A. (1847) Winter insects of eastern New York. American Journal of Agriculture and Science, 5(13), 274–284.

Flannagan, J.F. & Cobb, D.G. (1983) New records of winter stoneflies (Plecoptera) from Manitoba with notes on their zoogeographic origins. The Canadian Entomologist, 115, 673–677.

Flannagan, J.F. (1978) The winter stoneflies Allocapnia granulata, Taeniopteryx nivalis and T. parvula in southern Manitoba. The Canadian Entomologist, 110, 111–112.

Frison, T.H. (1929) Fall and winter stoneflies, or Plecoptera, of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 18(2), 345–409. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14782175

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. (2004) Studies on Indiana stoneflies (Plecoptera), with an annotated and revised state checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 106(4), 865–876. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30135436

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.

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

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

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. (1988) Taeniopteryx of western North America (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 64(4), 381–390.

Lager, T.M., Johnson, M.D., Williams, S.N. & McCulloch, J.L. (1979) A preliminary report on the Plecoptera and Trichoptera of northeastern Minnesota. The Great Lakes Entomologist, 12(3), 109–114.

Lake, R.W. (1980) Distribution of the Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Delaware. Entomological News, 91(2), 43–48. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2693419

Mingo, T.M., Courtemanch, D.L. & Gibbs, K.E. (1979) The aquatic insects of the St. John River drainage, Aroostook County, Maine. Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Technical Bulletins, 92, 1–22.

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

Narf, R.P. & Hilsenhoff, W.L. (1974) Emergence pattern of stoneflies (Plecoptera) in Otter Creek, Wisconsin. The Great Lakes Entomologist, 7, 117–125.

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

Ricker, W.E. & Ross, H.H. (1968) North American species of Taeniopteryx (Plecoptera, Insecta). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 25(7), 1423–1439. Available at http://doi.org/10.1139/f68-124

Shapas, T.J. & Hilsenhoff, W.L. (1976) Feeding Habits of Wisconsin's Predominant Lotic Plecoptera, Ephemeroptera, and Trichoptera. The Great Lakes Entomologist, 9(4), 175–188.

Stewart, K.W. & Oswood, M.W. (2006) The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Alaska and Western Canada. In The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio. vi. + 325.

Stewart, K.W. & Zeigler, D.D. (1984) Drumming behavior of twelve North American stonefly (Plecoptera) species: First descriptions in Peltoperlidae, Taeniopterygidae and Chloroperlidae. Aquatic insects, 6(1), 49–61.

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
Zwick, P. (1973) Insecta: Plecoptera Phylogenetisches System und Katalog. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 94, 465 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	1	2

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin: snowy.