Plecoptera (Stonefly) Species List for Gunnison County, ColoradoUpdated 3 June 2008 Also look at the North American Stonefly List by Stark, Baumann and DeWalt hosted by the Plecoptera Society of North America (PLSA) 
Phylum ArthropodaClass Insecta Order Plecoptera Stonefly Nymph Key Suborder Arctoperlaria Group Euholognatha
Sources for Gunnison County recordsAlexander,KD; Stewart,KW 1999 Revision of genus Suwallia Ricker (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Transactions of American Entomological Society 125 3, 185-250.Baumann, RW, Gaufin,AR, Surdick, RF 1977 The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Rocky Mountains. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 31, 1-208. Kondratieff, BC. and RW. Baumann (coordinators). 2003 Stoneflies of the United States. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/sfly/sflyusa.htm (Version 12DEC2003). Gunnison County Checklist: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/sfly/chklist/states/counties/co_51.htm USGS National Water Quality Assessment Data Warehouse http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/servlet/page?_pageid=543&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30 Data as of 1Sep2005 Peckarsky, BL Dodson,SI, Conklin, DJ 1985 A key to the aquatic insects of streams in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, including chironomid larvae from streams and ponds. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver CO. 47 pages. Stark, Bill P, Oblad, Briant R and A.R. Gaufin 1973 An annotated list of the stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Colorado Part 1. Entomological News 84:269-277. Links to Other WebsitesIntegrated Taxonomic Information Systemhttp://www.itis.gov/ Search the Illinois Museum of Natural History Plecoptera Database: http://ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu:591/INHSCollections/plecopterasearch.html Brown, Wendy S. 2004 Plecoptera or Stoneflies of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA www.gunnisoninsects.org "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -- Mark Twain |