Stoneflies - Plecoptera: Perlodidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoIsoperla quinquepunctata
Fivespot Stripetail(Banks 1902)
Updated 6 Oct 2011
TSN 103045
Locations Collected
This is the most common and abundant Isoperla species (Szczytko and Stewart 1979). The Illinois Natural History Survey has a specimen in their data base from Iola on the 15th of June 1937. This is an interesting historical note because Iola and the Gunnison River nearby were flooded by Blue Mesa Reservoir until the drought in the 2000's exposed Iola again for a while.
This species is rarely referred to as Isoperla 5-punctata, a translation of I. quinquepunctata.
Notes
Older publications may refer to this species as Cloroperla quinquepunctata or Isoperla patricia.
Good Links
On this website:
Introduction to Isoperla
Key to Perlodidae Nymphs
Other Websites:
Map - Kondratieff, Boris C. and Richard W. Baumann (coordinators). 2000. Stoneflies of the United States. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. (Version 12DEC2003).
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/sfly/usa/475.htm
Photos - from Troutnut.com
Photos, Map, Museum specimens, DNA - Barcodinglife.org
References
Banks,N 1902 Notes and descriptions of Perlidae. Canadian Entomologist 34:123-125.
Described as Chloroperla 5-punctata.
Baumann,RW, Gaufin,AR and Surdick,RF 1977 The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Rocky Mountains. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 31, 1-208.
Quote from page 152: "This rare species occurs in creeks and rivers. The adults emerge from May to July." Further collecting has revealed this to be a much more common species, see Szczytko and Stewart 1979
Kondratieff,BC; Baumann,RW 2002 A review of the stoneflies of Colorado with description of a new species of Capnia (Plecoptera: Capniidae). Transactions of American Entomological Society 128 3, 385-401.
Quote from page 396: " Isoperla quinquepunctata (Banks) previously reported from Colorado by Stark et al. (1973) and Baumann et al. (1977) as I. patricia Frison, is the most common and often abundant species of Isoperla throughout the lower Mountainand Plateau regions of Colorado. Males can be macropterous or brachypterous between and within populations. "
Nelson,SM and Roline,RA 1999 Relationships between metals and hyporheic invertebrate community structure in a river recovering from metals contamination. Hydrobiologia 397, 211-226. Abstract
Sandberg,JB 2011 Vibrational communication of Isoperla Banks from California and Oregon (Plecoptera: Perlodidae). Illiesia 2011 7(1):1-23. PDF
Sandberg, JB; Stewart, KW 2006 Continued studies of vibrational communication (drumming) of North American Plecoptera. Illiesia 2006 2(1):1-14. PDF (227 Kb)
Has sonograms of two-way duets between male and female I. quinquepunctata.
Stewart,KW and Szczytko,SW 1983 Drift of Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera in two Colorado rivers. Freshwater Invertebrate Biology. 2(3)117-131. PDF
Szczytko,SW; Stewart,KW 1979a The genus Isoperla (Plecoptera) of western North America; holomorphology and systematics, and a new stonefly genus Cascadoperla. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 32, 1-120.
Szczytko,SW and Stewart,KW 1979c Drumming behavior of four Western Nearctic Isoperla (Plecoptera) species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 72(6)781-786.
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