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Podmosta macdunnoughi

  • 1. Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 42101, USA Department of Biology and Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 84602, USA & scott. grubbs @ wku. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2170 - 9716
  • 2. richard _ baumann @ byu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0838 - 4080

Description

8. Podmosta macdunnoughi (Ricker, 1947)

Maritime Forestfly

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(Figs. 4, 55‒60)

Nemoura macdunnoughi Ricker 1947:403. Holotype male (Canadian National Collection), Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nemoura (Podmosta) macdunnoughi: Ricker, 1952:42

Podmosta macdunnoughi: Illies, 1966:219

Nemoura (Podmosta) macdunnoughi: Harper & Hynes, 1971:1137

Nemoura (Podmosta) macdunnoughi: Hitchcock, 1974:100

Distribution. Canada: LB, NB, NF, NS, PE, PQ. USA: ME, MN, NY (DeWalt et al. 2022)

Male. Macropterous. Body length 4.0– 4.8 mm, forewing length 4.7–4.9 mm (n = 3). Gills absent. Cerci simple and unmodified (Figs. 55‒56). Paraprocts undivided as a lightly sclerotized triangular lobe. Epiproct short and complex, anteriorly-recurved fully over abdomen (Figs. 55‒57); dorsal sclerite broadly rounded basally (Figs. 56‒ 58), extending anteriorly as paired lobes sparsely covered by small spinules (Figs. 56‒58) and dorsally as short bifurcated lateral arms (Figs. 57‒58); ventral sclerite narrow basally, laterally expanded in apical ½, overall t-shaped anteriorly, medially concave (Figs. 56‒57).

Female. Macropterous. Body length 5.4–6.5 mm, forewing length 4.8–5.9 mm (n = 6). Gills absent. Cerci simple and unmodified (Figs. 59‒60). Subgenital plate of 8 th tergum scarcely extending over anterior margin of 9 th tergum, with a dark sclerotized medial band that is apically concave (Figs. 59‒60). The 7 th sternum is membranous and barely produced over the anterior margin of the 8 th tergum (Figs. 59‒60).

Larva. Described by Harper & Hynes (1971). Ricker (1947) also provided a partial illustration.

Comments. Podmosta macdunnoughi is the only species of this Holarctic genus distributed in eastern North America (DeWalt et al. 2022).

Notes

Published as part of Grubbs, Scott A. & Baumann, Richard W., 2023, The Nemourinae (Insecta, Nemouridae) of the eastern Nearctic, pp. 1-53 in Zootaxa 5306 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8054287

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nemouridae
Genus
Podmosta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Plecoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ricker
Species
macdunnoughi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Podmosta macdunnoughi (Ricker, 1947) sec. Grubbs & Baumann, 2023

References

  • Ricker, W. E. (1947) Stoneflies of the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, 26, 401 - 414.
  • Ricker, W. E. (1952) Systematic Studies in Plecoptera. Indiana University Publications Series, 18, 1 - 200. [http: // www. nativefishlab. net / library / textpdf / 16861. pdf]
  • Illies, J. (1966) Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich. 82. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 631 pp.
  • Harper, P. P. & Hynes, H. B. N. (1971) The nymphs of Nemouridae of eastern Canada (Insecta: Plecoptera). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 49, 1129 - 1142. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / z 71 - 173
  • Hitchcock, S. W. (1974) Guide to the insects of Connecticut. Part VII. The Plecoptera or stoneflies of Connecticut. State Geological Natural History Survey of Connecticut, 107, 1 - 262.
  • DeWalt, R. E., Maehr, M. D., Hopkins, H. P., Neu-Becker, U. & Stueber, G. (2022) Plecoptera Species File Online. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from: http: // Plecoptera. SpeciesFile. org (accessed 3 July 2022)