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Species

Skwala americana (Klapálek, 1912)

American Springfly

Nomenclature (21)

  • Arcynopteryx americana Klapálek, 1912: 21. (valid)
  • Arcynopteryx americana Klapálek, 1912 in Smith, 1917: 481.
  • Skwala americana (Klapálek, 1912) in Baumann, Sheldon & Bottorff, 2017: 83.
  • Skwala americana (Klapálek, 1912) in Erasmus & Huber, 2020: 67.

Nomenclature references (20)

  • Klapálek, F. (1912) Plécoptères I. Fam. Perlodidae. Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Sélys-Longchamps, 4(1), 1–66. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38463
  • Smith, L.W. (1917) Studies of North American Plecoptera (Pteronarcinae and Perlodini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 43(4), 433–489. Available at http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/browse/title/5077659.html
  • Alexander, C.P. (1936) A new species of Perlodes from the White Mountains, New Hampshire (Family Perlidae, Order Plecoptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 31, 24–27. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50578561#page/274/mode/1up
  • Frison, T.H. (1936) Some New Species of Stoneflies From Oregon (Plecoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 29(2), 256–265, 2 pl. Available at http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/browse/title/5077679.html
  • Claassen, P.W. (1940) A catalogue of the Plecoptera of the world. Memoirs of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 232, 1–235. Available at https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla7251474_8571_012#mode/1up
  • Hanson, J.F. (1942) Records and descriptions of North American Plecoptera. Part II. Notes on North American Perlodidae. The American Midland Naturalist, 28(2), 389–407. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2420822
  • Brinck, P. (1949) Studies on Swedish stoneflies (Plecoptera). Opuscula Entomologica. Supplementum, 11, 1–250.
  • Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 82, 1–631.
  • 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.
  • Zwick, P. (1989) Notes on Plecoptera (18). Skwala americana (Klapalek, 1912), comb. n., the valid name for Skwala parallela (Frison, 1936). Aquatic insects, 11(3), 181–182.
  • Mangum, F.A. (1999) Rotenone Effects on Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of the Strawberry River, Utah: A Five-Year Summary. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 14(1), 125–135. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02705060.1999.9663661
  • 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.
  • Stewart, K.W. & Oswood, M.W. (2006) The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Alaska and Western Canada. In The Caddis Press, Columbus, Ohio. vi. + 325.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Heinold, B.D. (2010) The Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
  • 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.
  • Dosdall, L.M. & Giberson, D.J. (2014) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Canadian Prairie Provinces. pp. 201–229.
  • 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
  • Erasmus, D.J. & Huber, D.P.W. (2020) Plecoptera from the Crooked River, British Columbia. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 117, 64–68.

Other references (0)

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1056
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Etymology:

Latin: American.