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Stoneflies - Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae of Gunnison County, Colorado

Sallfly or Triznaka female key to species

1a. Anterior black mark on head as long as wide, often extending posteriorly to medain ocellus; median pronotal stripe broad, little produced laterally on posterior margin; little or no pigmentation on pronotal rugosities; subgenital plate broadly rounded.
1b. Anterior mark on head twice as wide as long, not extending to median ocellus; median pronotal stripe much produced laterally at anterior and posterior margins; heavy pigmentation on pronotal rugosities; subgenital plate slightly emarginate.Triznaka pintada

References

Key and drawings modified from:
Baumann,RW, Gaufin,AR and Surdick,RF 1977 The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Rocky Mountains. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 31, 1-208. PDF

Kondratieff,BC and Baumann,RW 2012 A new species of the western North American genus Triznaka from Oregon (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae). Illiesia, 8(02)10-15. PDF
     Provides a key to all known North American species of Triznaka.

Good Links

Key to Male Triznaka
Brown, Wendy S. 2004 Plecoptera or Stoneflies of Gunnison County, Colorado
www.gunnisoninsects.org