Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoAlloperla thaliaRicker, 1952Updated 22 May 2016
Good LinksOn this website:Alloperla Introduction Other Websites Photos, Map, Museum specimens, DNA - Barcodinglife.org ReferencesBaumann,RW and Kondratieff, BC 2008 The Alloperla severa complex (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) of western North America. Illiesia 2008 4(6):66-75. PDFThe authors split A. severa into three species A. severa, A. elevata and A. thalia. A. severa is restricted to northern North America. Alloperla thalia is present in Colorado and may be the species we have been calling A. severa.  Ricker, WE 1952. Systematic studies in Plecoptera. Indiana University Publications, Science Series 18, 200 pages, Bloomington, Indiana. First description of this insect. Ricker,WE 1992 Origin of stonefly names proposed by Ricker and collaborators. Perla, 18(1) 12 pages. PDF Quote from page 3: "*thalia Ricker 1952. Syn. severa Hagen. Thalia is the Muse of comedy, but I have forgotten what was amusing here. Hagen's name is evidently from Russian sever = north, the type being from the "Island of Unga, Russian America"." |