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Taeniopteryx nivalis (Fitch, 1847)

Boreal Willowfly
Taeniopteryx nivalis (Fitch, 1847): Nymph crawling over ice. Wisconsin River, WI, Mar. 2009. (Otu).
Taeniopteryx nivalis (Fitch, 1847): Nymph crawling over ice. Wisconsin River, WI, Mar. 2009. (Otu).
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)

  • 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
  • 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.

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Latin: snowy.