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Family

Perlidae Latreille, 1802

Summer stoneflies; Summer Stoneflies

Type

type genus of Perlidae Latreille, 1802

Nomenclature (51)

  • Perlidae Latreille, 1802

    type genus Perla Geoffroy, 1762

  • Perlidae Latreille, 1802 in Stephens, 1836
  • Perlidae Latreille, 1802 in Gastaldo, Almeida & Salles, 2025: 1-16. Morphology
  • Perlidae Latreille, 1802 in Wang, Niu, Qin, Cao, Li & Murányi, 2025: 1-12. Phylogeny

Nomenclature references (47)

  • Latreille, P.A. (1802) Families naturelles et genres. In Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes : ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle rédigé. F. Dufart, Paris. Vol. 3, 467 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=0Ys-AAAAcAAJ
  • Stephens, J.F. (1836) Illustrations of British entomology; or a synopsis of indigenous insects: containing their generic and specific distinctions with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food and economy, as far as practicable, with coloured figures (from Westwood) of the rare and more interesting species. Baldwin & Cradock, London, Vol. 6, 134–145 pp. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34083#page/47/mode/1up
  • Newman, E.A. (1839) On the Synonymy of the Perlites, together with brief charaters of the old and of a few new species. Art. IV. Magazine of Natural History, 3(25), 32–37, 84–90. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/magazineofnatura13loud
  • Westwood, J.O. (1839) Part No. 9. In An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects: Founded on the Natural Habits and Corresponding Organisation of the Different Families. Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. Vol. 2. Available at http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi01--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&c=munahi01&cl=CL1.2&d=munahi001-aad
  • Newman, E.A. (1853) Proposed division of Neuroptera into two classes. Art. XXIX. The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 11(Appendix), clxxxii-cciv. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=nxsFAAAAQAAJ
  • Enderlein, G. (1909) Klassifikation der Plecopteren sowie Diagnosen neurer Gattungen und Arten. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 34, 385–419.
  • Klapálek, F. (1909) II. Plecoptera, Steinfliegen. In Die Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. Eine Exkursionsfauna. Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena. pp. 33–95, 160–163, 124 fig. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/diessswasserfa08brau
  • Okamoto, H. (1912) Erster Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Japanischen Plecopteren. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 4, 105–170. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=3GLPAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  • Klapálek, F. (1914) Analytická tabulka fam. Perlidae a její dvou subfam., Perlinae a Acroneuriinae (Plecoptera). Casopis Ceskoslovenské Spolecnosti Entomologické, 11, 53–69. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14991931
  • Tillyard, R.J. (1921) A new classification of the order Perlaria. The Canadian Entomologist, 53, 35–43. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/canadianentomolo53ento
  • 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
  • Frison, T.H. (1935) The stoneflies, or Plecoptera, of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 20, 281–471. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760489
  • Hoppe, G.N. (1938) Plecoptera of Washington. University of Washington Publications in Biology, 4(2), 139–174.
  • Banks, N. (1947) Some characters in the Perlidae. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 54(4), 266–291. Available at http://psyche.entclub.org/54/54-266.html
  • Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 82, 1–631.
  • Zwick, P. (1973) Insecta: Plecoptera Phylogenetisches System und Katalog. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 94, 465 pp.
  • 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.
  • Stark, B.P. & Gaufin, A.R. (1976) The Nearctic genera of Perlidae (Plecoptera). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, 10(1), 1–77.
  • Zwick, P. (1983) The Neoperla of Sumatra and Java (Indonesia) (Plecoptera: Perlidae). Spixiana, 6(2), 167–204. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28257608
  • Ormerod, S.J. & Tyler, S.J. (1986) The diet of Dippers Cinclus cinclus wintering in the catchment of the River Wye, Wales. Bird Study, 33, 36–45. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00063658609476888
  • Sivec, I., Stark, B.P. & Uchida, S. (1988) Synopsis of the world genera of Perlinae (Plecoptera: Perlidae). Scopolia, 16, 1–66. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Scopolia_16_0001-0066.pdf
  • Zwick, P. (1990) Transantarctic Relationships in the Plecoptera. In Series Entomologica. Vol. 44, pp. 141–148.
  • Carpenter, F.M. (1992) Volume 3: Superclass Hexapoda. In Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. pp. xxi, 1–277.
  • Zwick, P. (2000) Phylogenetic System and Zoogeography of the Plecoptera. Annual Review of Entomology, 45, 709–746.
  • Du, Y.-Z. & He, J. (2001) Progress on Taxonomic Study of the Family Perlidae from China. In Trends in Research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, Boston etc. pp. 369–375.
  • Stewart, K.W. & Stark, B.P. (2002) Nymphs of North American Stonefly Genera (Plecoptera). In Caddis Press. Columbus, Ohio. 510 pp.
  • Miserendino, M.L. & Pizzolon, L.A. (2003) Distribution of macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Azul-Quemquemtreu river basin, Patagonia, Argentina. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 37, 525–539. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288330.2003.9517187
  • Stark, B.P. & Armitage, B.J. (2004) The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of eastern North America. Volume II. Chloroperlidae, Perlidae, Perlodidae (Perlodinae). Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series, 14(4), 1–192.
  • Stark, B.P. (2004) Perlidae (The Stones). In Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series. Vol. 14, Issue 4, pp. 61–148.
  • Stewart, K.W. & Sandberg, J.B. (2006) Vibratory Communication and Mate Searching Behaviour in Stoneflies. In Insect Sounds and Communication: Physiology, Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. pp. 179–186.
  • Alibozek, J. & Ganger, M. (2008) Temporal Changes in Stream Insect Abundance in Northwestern Massachusetts. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 23(4), 673–676. https://doi.org/10.1080/02705060.2008.9664255
  • Sheldon, A.L. (2008) Scale and Hierarchy in the Ecology of Stoneflies. In International Advances in the Ecology, Zoogeography, and Systematics of Mayflies and Stoneflies. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. pp. 15–38. Available at http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11081.php
  • Tamura, F., Isobe, Y. & Oishi, T. (2009) A comparative study of the morphology and distribution of setae and hairs on the larval legs of two families (Perlodidae, Perlidae) of Japanese Plecoptera. Aquatic insects, 31(Supp. 1), 547–563.
  • Heinold, B.D. (2010) The Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
  • Judson, S.W. & Nelson, C.R. (2012) A Guide to Mongolian Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera). Zootaxa, 3541, 1–118.
  • Duarte, T., Lecci, L.S. & Calor, A.R. (2014) Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from Serra Bonita, Bahia, Brazil: New species and updated records. Zootaxa, 3779(1), 081–092. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3779.1.9
  • Anzani, Y.M., Krisanti, M. & Wardiatno, Y. (2016) The diversity and density of Plecoptera in the headwaters ofCisadane River, West Java, Indonesia. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JEBS), 9(1), 126–132.
  • Gill, B.A., Kondratieff, B.C., Casner, K.L., Encalada, A.C., Flecker, A.S., Gannon, D.G., Ghalambor, C.K., Guayasimin, J.M., Poff, N.L.R., Simmons, M.P., Thomas, S.A., Zamudio, K.R. & Funk, W.C. (2016) Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the ‘mountain passes are higher in the tropics’ hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, 1–9. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0553
  • Hohmann, M. & Kuttner, R. (2018) The stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) of the collection of Dietrch Braasch in the Museum of Natural History Potsdam. Veröffentlichungen des Naturkundemuseums Potsdam, 4, 29–37.
  • Chen, Z.-T. (2019) A synopsis of Chinese Plecoptera research. Acta Entomologica Sinica, 16, 62–87.
  • Cheney, K.N., Roy, A.H., Smith, R.F. & DeWalt, R.E. (2019) Effects of Stream Temperature and Substrate Type on Emergence Patterns of Plecoptera and Trichoptera From Northeastern United States Headwater Streams. Environmental Entomology, 20(20), 1–11.
  • Bowman, R.O. & Smith, R.F. (2021) Vertical Migration of Adult Plecoptera and Trichoptera above Forested Headwater Streams. Insects, 12(770), 1–17.
  • Cardoso de Carvalho, L.A., de Almeida, L.H. & da Conceicão Bispo, P. (2021) Perlidae (Plecoptera) from Bahia State, Brazil: description of the nymphs of Anacroneuria bahiensis Righi-Cavallaro & Lecci, notes on Anacroneuria debilis (Pictet), and updated list of the species. Zootaxa, 5023(3), 433–441.
  • Soares Rippel, M.L., Salles, F.F., Fernandes, A.S.I. & Krolow, T.K. (2023) New and additional records of Anacroneuria Klapálek (Plecoptera: Insecta) from Tocantins state, Brazil. Zootaxa, 5339(4), 377–389. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5339.4.4
  • Moradi-Asl, E. & Nikookar, S.H. (2024) Biological Evaluation of the Water Quality in Northwest Iran by Using Aquatic Insect. Indian Journal of Entomology, 87(4: e24591), 1–3. [2025] https://doi.org/10.55446/ije.2024.1591
  • Gastaldo, R.B., Almeida, L.H.de & Salles, F.F. (2025) On Anacroneuriini (Plecoptera: Perlidae) morphology: Standardizing vocabulary and a morphological atlas. Arthropod Structure & Development, 86, 101427: 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2025.101427
  • Wang, Y., Niu, Y., Qin, B., Cao, J., Li, W.-H. & Murányi, D. (2025) Exploring the Mitogenomes of Acroneuriinae: The First Report of Gene Rearrangements in Plecoptera Species and Phylogenetic Analyses of Perlidae. Ecology and Evolution, 15(e72309), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72309

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Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Family1012
Subfamily2013
Tribe6118
Genus551356124
Subgenus4026
Superspecies250025
Subsuperspecies1001
Species1397278662290
Subspecies4048