Perlesta armitagei n. sp. (Plecoptera: Perlidae): More cryptic diversity in darkly pigmented Perlesta from the eastern Nearctic
Author
Grubbs, Scott A.
Author
Dewalt, R. Edward
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-29
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Perlesta cinctipes
(
Banks, 1905
)
Plains Stone
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid:
Plecoptera
.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:1211
(
Figs. 5
&
11
)
Perlinella cinctipes
Banks 1905
:56
.
Lectotype
♂
(
MCZC
),
Onaga
, (
Pottawatomie Co.
),
Kansas
.
Perlesta cinctipes
:
Stark 1989
:270
Perlesta cinctipes
:
Poulton & Stewart 1991
:39
Perlesta cinctipes
:
Stark 2004
:91
Distribution.
USA
: AR, IA, IL, KS, MO, NE, OK (
DeWalt
et al.
2018
)
Remarks.
Perlesta cinctipes
is distributed from
Nebraska
south into the Interior Highlands region of
Arkansas
,
Missouri
and
Oklahoma
and east only to western
Illinois
(
Fig. 11a
;
DeWalt
et al.
2018
). All previously published records from
Indiana
(DeWalt & Grubbs 2011),
Kentucky
(Tarter
et al.
2006, 2015),
Ohio
(
Stark 2004
,
Grubbs
et al.
2013
,
DeWalt
et al.
2016
), and
West Virginia
(
Tarter & Nelson 2006
), either as
P. cinctipes
or
P
.
I-4
, now refer to
P. armitagei
sp. nov.
(see below). The record of
P. cinctipes
from
Illinois
as noted above represents the eastern known extent of this species range (
DeWalt
et al.
2001
).