Allocapnia rickeri Frison
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Kondratieff, Boris C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Capniidae
Allocapnia
Allocapnia rickeri

description: <i>Allocapnia rickeri</i> Frison (Figs. 97-102) <i>Allocapnia rickeri</i> Frison 1942:269. Holotype &amp;male; (Illinois Natural History Survey), Big Grand Pierre River, Golconda [Pope Co.], Illinois <i>Allocapnia rickeri</i>: Ross &amp; Ricker, 1971:41. <i>Allocapnia rickeri</i>: Nations et al., 2007:82. <b>Material examined. Alabama</b>: Limestone Co., East Fork Anderson Creek, Anderson, 5 January 2001, B. Stark, C.G. Simpson, I. Nazir, 7&amp;male; (BPS). <b>Arkansas</b>: Montgomery Co., 2 miles E Hurricane Grove, Hwy 270, 28 December 2010, B. Stark, 2&amp;male; (BPS). Van Buren Co., Choctaw Crk, Hwy 65, 4 January 1997, B. Stark, S. Tucker, 42&amp;male;, 3&amp;female; (BPS). Van Buren Co., Archey Creek, Rt 166, 3 January 1997, B. Stark, S. Tucker, 23&amp;male;, 4&amp;female; (BPS). <b>Mississippi</b>: Tishomingo Co., Clear Creek, Hwy 172, 10 February 2007, B. Stark, 40&amp;male;, 3&amp;female; (BPS). <b>North Carolina</b>: Cabarras Co., East Concord, Barringer Creek, Hwy 49, 4 January 1998, M.H. Alford, 8&amp;male; (BPS). Orange Co., Eno River, Pleasant Green Road, 18 January 1998, M.H. Alford, 2&amp;male;, (BPS). <b>Ohio</b>: Scioto Co., Turkey Creek, Hwy 52, 26 February 2005, M.H. Alford, 2&amp;male; (BPS). <b>Oklahoma</b>: Latimer Co., tributary Brazil Creek, 1 mile N Cedar Cemetery, 28 December 2006, B. Stark, J. Stark, 23&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (BPS). <b>Tennessee</b>: Bedford Co., Ashland Branch Sugar Creek, Bluestock Road, 23 February 1999, B.C. Kondratieff, R. F. Kirchner, 8&amp;male; (CSUC). Wayne Co., Eagle Creek, Hwy 114, 14 March 2010, B. Stark, 5&amp;male; (BPS). <b>Male epiproct.</b> Apical segment of upper limb ca. 226 μm long, and armed on the apical ca. 173 μm with dense patch of wave-like spikes (Figs. 97-101); apical segment ca. 132 μm wide at base and gradually narrowed to bluntly rounded tip. Basal segment of upper limb ca. 350 μm long and ca. 111 μm wide near midlength; basal segment bears a wide, shallow, longitudinal groove which extends to base of apical segment. Lower limb hidden beneath apical segment of upper limb. <b>Male tergal process.</b> Prominent raised structures on abdominal tergum 8 (Figs. 100-102). Process of tergum 8 bilobed, ca. 175 μm wide, and the lobes separated by a ca. 85 μm notch. Lobes deeply divided and covered with scale-like structures.
description: Published as part of <i>Stark, Bill P. &amp; Kondratieff, Boris C., 2012, Epiproct And Dorsal Process Structure In The Allocapnia Forbesi Frison, A. Pygmaea (Burmeister), And A. Rickeri Frison Species Groups (Plecoptera: Capniidae), And Inclusion Of A. Minima (Newport) In A New Species Group, pp. 45-77 in Illiesia 8 (5)</i> on pages 69-72, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760725
description: {"references": ["Frison, T. H. 1942. Studies of North American Plecoptera with special reference to the fauna of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 22: 235 - 355.", "Ross, H. H. &amp; W. E. Ricker. 1971. The classification, evolution, and dispersal of the winter stonefly genus Allocapnia. Illinois Biological Monographs 45: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. 166 pp.", "Nations, T. M., B. P. Stark, &amp; M. B. Hicks. 2007. The winter stoneflies (Plecoptera: Capniidae) of Mississippi. Illiesia, 3: 70 - 94."]}