Notoperla Enderlein 1909
Creators: name: McLellan, Ian
name: Mercado, Maritza
name: Elliott, Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Gripopterygidae
Notoperla

description: <i>Notoperla</i> Enderlein, 1909 <i>Notoperla</i> Enderlein, 1909, p. 393. <i>Senzilla</i> Navás, 1917, p. 192. <i>Abranchioperla</i> Illies, 1958, p. 123. <i>Notoperla,</i> Illies, 1963, pp. 163 – 171. Type species <i>Notoperla fuegiana</i> (Enderlein 1905) Illies (1958) described <i>Abranchioperla archiplatae</i> from larvae only and proposed the genus <i>Abranchioperla</i> and the family Abranchioperlidae to contain the species <i>Abranchioperla archiplatae</i>. He based the generic and family name on the lack of anal gill filaments in larvae and chose as the holotype a larva from a mountain stream at 2000m by Lo Valdés near Santiago, Chile (33 <b>°</b> 45´00’’ S). Illies (1960) gave a diagnosis for Abranchioperlidae, described and illustrated the female of <i>Abranchioperla archiplatae</i> from a female from Rio Murta which flows into Lago Buenos Aires (46 <b>°</b> 30’ 00’’ S) and illustrated a larva from Rio San Ricardo in Tierra del Fuego. In 1963 Illies revised <i>Notoperla</i> and declared <i>Abranchioperla</i> a new synonym. He also stated that his 1960 <i>A. archiplatae</i> larval illustration was that of the larva of <i>Notoperla fuegiana</i> and that the female he described was a <i>N. tunelina</i> female. He then invalidly designated as holotype of <i>Notoperla archiplatae</i> a male from Las Trancas, Cordillero Nuble, Chile (36 <b>°</b> 56´00’’ S) and the previous holotype larva as a paratype. For the 3 species known at that stage he supplied a distribution map showing <i>Notoperla fuegiana</i> restricted to Tierra del Fuego; <i>N. tunelina</i> from Patagonia to Chiloe Island and <i>N. archiplatae</i> above there to about level with Santiago. Illies (1963) is still the authority on <i>Notoperla</i> but should be used carefully for 3 reasons. There is still insufficient information on the known species, there may be other undescribed species and the distribution map may not show the true distribution of the species.
description: Published as part of <i>McLellan, Ian, Mercado, Maritza &amp; Elliott, Simon, 2005, A New Species Of Notoperla (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) From Chile, pp. 33-39 in Illiesia 1 (5)</i> on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4754475
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