Leuctra moha Ricker, 1952

Grubbs, Scott A., Metzger, Madeline L. & Wei, Summer, 2020, Systematics of eastern Nearctic Leuctra moha Ricker, 1952 with notes on L. hicksi Harrison & Stark, 2010 (Plecoptera: Leuctridae), Zootaxa 4768 (3), pp. 361-373 : 364

Leuctra moha Ricker, 1952

Blackwater Needlefly

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( Figs. 1–8 , 13 )

Leuctra (Leuctra) moha Ricker 1952:169 . Holotype ♂ (INHS), Mossy Creek , 4.6 mi N Perry, (Houston or Peach Co.), Georgia, USA (examined)

Leuctra moha Illies, 1966:100

Leuctra moha Harper & Harper, 1997:472

Figures

FIGURE 1. Leuctra moha male, South Carolina, Lower Three Runs Creek. 1, abdominal terminalia, dorsal view. e = epiproct, sa = subanal lobe, sp = specillum.

FIGURES 2–7. Leuctra moha males, 2, South Carolina, Lower Three Runs Creek; 3–7, South Carolina, Upper Three Runs Creek. 2, paraprocts, dorsal view, 450X; 3, paraprocts, caudal view, 270X; 4, details of paraproct tips, caudal view, 900X; 5, right paraproct lobes, lateral view, 400X; 6, 10th sternum, ventral view, 190X; 7, vesicle, ventral view, 800X. sa = subanal lobe, sp = specillum, v = vesicle.

FIGURE 8. Leuctra moha female, abdominal terminalia, ventral view, South Carolina, Upper Three Runs Creek.

FIGURE 13. Distribution map of Leuctra moha and L. hicksi based on all known locality data for both species. The inset shows the approximate extent of the map in the southeastern USA. Data includes records presented above, in Harrison & Stark (2010), and the two questionable L. moha Alabama records in James (1972). AL = Alabama, AR = Arkansas, FL = Florida, GA = Georgia, LA = Louisiana, MS = Mississippi, NC = North Carolina, SC = South Carolina, and TN = Tennessee