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Pteronarcys californica Newport, 1848

Giant Salmonfly

Nomenclature (35)

  • Pteronarcys californicus Newport, 1848: 388.
  • Pteronarcys californica Newport, 1848 in Newport, 1851
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  • Pteronarcys californica Newport, 1848 in Erasmus & Huber, 2020: 67.
  • Pteronarcys californica Newport, 1848 in Frakes, Birrell, Shah & Woods, 2021

Nomenclature references (34)

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  • 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
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  • Claassen, P.W. (1931) Plecoptera nymphs of American (north of Mexico). The Thomas Say Foundation, 3, 1–199.
  • Dosdall, L.M. & Giberson, D.J. (2014) Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Canadian Prairie Provinces. pp. 201–229.
  • 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.
  • Frakes, J.I., Birrell, J.H., Shah, A.A. & Woods, H.A. (2021) Flow increases tolerance of heat and hypoxia of an aquatic insect. Biology Letters, 17(20210004), 1–6.
  • Hagen, H.A. (1861) Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America. With a List of the South American Species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1–347. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/synopsisofneurop00hage
  • Hagen, H.A. (1874) Report of the Pseudo-Neuroptera and Neuroptera collected by Lieut. W. L. Carpenter in 1873 in Colorado. In Annual Report on the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado, being a report of progress of the explorations for the year 1873. U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. pp. 571–606. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=IbgQAAAAIAAJ
  • Heinold, B.D. (2010) The Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Stoneflies (Plecoptera), and Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of the South Platte River Basin of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
  • Heinold, B.D., Kowalski, D.A. & Nehring, R.B. (2020) Estimating densities of larval Salmonflies (Pteronarcys californica) through multiple pass removal of post-emergent exuvia in Colorado rivers. PLOS One, 15(4: e0227088), 1–10.
  • Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich – Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen., 82, 1–631.
  • Kauwe, J.S.K. (2004) Phylogeographic and nested clade analysis of the stonefly Pteronarcys californica (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae in western USA. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 23, 824–838.
  • Kimmins, D.E. (1970) A list of the type-specimens of Plecoptera and Megaloptera in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 24(8), 337–361. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis24entolond
  • 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.
  • Kowalski, D.A. & Richer, E.E. (2020) Quantifying the habitat preferences of the stonefly Pteronarcys californica in Colorado. River Research and Applications, 36(10), 2043–2050.
  • McCafferty, W.P. (1981) In Aquatic Entomology. The Fisherman’s and Ecologists Guide to Insects and Their Relatives. Jones and Bartlett, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Myers, L. & Kondratieff, B.C. (2017) Larvae of North American species of Pteronarcys (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae). Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 13(16), 192–224. Available at http://illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Illiesia13-16.pdf
  • Navás, R.P.L. (1917) Insecta nova. I Series. Memorie dell'Accademia Pontifica dei Nuovi Lincei, Rome, 3, 1–11. Available at http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Bibliography/bibdetailedresultsAdv.cfm?IDNum1=669&IDquery1=contains&IDquery2=navas&IDquery3=is&IDquery4=&IDquery5=contains&IDquery6=&IDquery7=contains&IDquery8=Nuovi&IDquery9=contains&IDquery10=&&IDquery11=is&IDquery12=&IDquery13=0&IDquery14=0&IDquery15=false&IDquery16=0
  • Nelson, C.H. & Hanson, J.F. (1971) Contribution to the anatomy and phylogeny of the family Pteronarcyidae. Transaction of the American Entomological Society, 97, 123–200.
  • Nelson, C.H. (1988) Note on the Phylogenetic Systematics of the Family Pteronarcyidae (Plecoptera), with a Description of the Eggs and Nymphs of the Asian Species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 81(4), 560–576.
  • Nelson, C.H. (2009) Surface ultrastructure and evolution of tarsal attachment structures in Plecoptera (Arthropoda: Hexapoda). Aquatic insects, 31(Supp. 1), 523–545.
  • Newell, R.L. & Baumann, R.W. (2012) Stonefly sex gone awry: An attempted mating by a Perlinodes aureus (Smith) male with a Pteronarcys californica Newport male. Illiesia: International Journal of Stonefly Research, 8, 152–157. Available at http://www2.pms-lj.si/illiesia/papers/Illiesia08-16.pdf
  • 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
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  • Newport, G. (1851) On the Anatomy and Affinities of Pteronarcys regalis, Newm.: with a Postscript, containing Descriptions of some American Perlidae, together with Notes on the Habits. XXVII. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology, 20, 425–452, 1 pl. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/transactionsofli05linn
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  • Stark, B.P. & Szczytko, S.W. (1982) Egg morphology and phylogeny in Pteronarcyidae (Plecoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 75(519-529). Available at http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/content/75/5/519.full.pdf
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From California (USA).