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Oemopteryx contorta (Needham & Claassen, 1925)

Dark Willowfly

Nomenclature (17)

  • Taeniopteryx contorta Needham & Claassen, 1925: 242.

    Holotype; male; 27d30625-470e-40d3-80f8-1484448780b8; deposited at: Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC); United States: New Hampshire: Jaffrey

  • Oemopteryx contorta (Needham & Claassen, 1925) in Illies, 1966: 63.
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  • Taeniopteryx contorta Needham & Claassen, 1925 in Verdone, Williams, Beaty, Holland, Grubbs & DeWalt, 2025: 28. Description/Redescription; Distribution/Dispersal/Specimen Records
  • Taeniopteryx contorta Needham & Claassen, 1925 in Myers, Kondratieff, Grubbs, Pett, DeWalt, Mihuc & Hart, 2025: 42.

Nomenclature references (17)

  • Grubbs, S. (2006) Allocapnia sano, a new species of snowfly (Plecoptera: Capniidae) from Alabama, U.S.A., plus six new state records. Zootaxa, 1197, 39–43, 1 pl.
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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. & 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. & Voshell, J.R., Jr. (1979) Checklist of the stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Virginia. Entomological News, 90(5), 241–246.
  • Kondratieff, B.C., Kirchner, R.F. & Lenat, D.R. (1995) A review of stonefly records (Plecoptera: Hexapoda) of North Carolina and South Carolina. Brimleyana, 23, 25–40.
  • 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.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
  • 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
  • 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., Chaffee, D.L. & Grubbs, S. (2006) Revised checklist of the stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Kentucky, U.S.A. Entomological News, 117(1), 1–10.
  • Verdone, C.J., Kondratieff, B.C., DeWalt, R.E. & South, E.J. (2017) Studies on the stoneflies of Georgia with the description of a new species of Soyedina Ricker, new state records and an annotated checklist. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 13(3), 30–49. Available at http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia13-03.pdf
  • Verdone, C.J., Williams, B.W., Beaty, S.R., Holland, V.B., Grubbs, S.A. & DeWalt, R.E. (2025) The adults, larvae, and systematics of the Nearctic Oemopteryx Klapálek, 1902 (Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae). Zootaxa, 5595(1), 1–94. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5595.1.1
  • 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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