Leuctra tenuis
Creators: name: Grubbs, Scott A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Leuctra
Leuctra tenuis

description: <i>Leuctra tenuis</i> (Pictet 1841) Narrow-lobed Needlefly http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Plecoptera.specie sfile.org:TaxonName:460989 (Figs. 23‒33) <i>Nemoura tenuis</i> Pictet 1841:375. Type (ZMHB), Philadelphia, (Philadelphia Co.), Pennsylvania <i>Leuctra tenuis</i>: Illies 1966:109 <i>Leuctra tenuis</i>: Zwick 1973:407 <b>Male.</b> The 7th abdominal dorsal process is narrowly-triangular in shape, tapering to a tip that is bulbous and rounded posteriorly (Figs. 23‒25). The specilla are ca. parallel-sided throughout length, except at the tip; specilla gently recurved anteriorly and mostly smooth distally (Figs. 28‒30, 32); lacking a terminal spur or raised tubercles; bearing few pits distally (Figs. 31, 33). The subanal lobes are narrow basally, tapering and gently recurved distally, ca. ¾ the length of the specilla (Figs. 28‒30, 32). <b>Material examined</b>. <b>USA</b>, <b>Alabama</b>, Cleburne Co., Hillabee Creek, 33.4855, -85.7934, 16 October 2005, A.L. Sheldon, 3&amp;male; (WKUC). <b>Connecticut</b>, Tolland Co., Roaring Brook, Rte. 32, 6 km S Stafford Springs, 41.9035, -72.2878, 29 June 2006, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (WKUC); Windham Co., Bungee Brook, 3.5 km S Eastford, 41.8713, -72.0878, 29 June 2006, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (WKUC). <b>Indiana</b>, Harrison Co., tributary to West Fork Mosquito Creek, 4 km E Laconia, 38.0245, -86.0393, 20 October 2002, S.A. Grubbs, 3&amp;male;, 4&amp;female; (WKUC). <b>Kentucky</b>, Harlan Co., Watts Creek, Blanton Forest State Nature Preserve, 36.8619, -83.3753, 11 July‒3 September 2009, M.A. Floyd, 6&amp;male; (DCTC); same locality but 9 September‒4 November 2009, M.A. Floyd, 6&amp;male; (DCTC). <b>Maryland</b>, Allegany Co., Deep Run, Green Ridge State Forest, 39.6531, -78.4523, 4 July 1996, S.A. Grubbs, 2&amp;male;, 7&amp;female; (WKUC); same locality but 7 August 1998, S.A. Grubbs, 6&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (WKUC); Garrett Co., Middle Fork, Savage River State Forest, 39.5130, -79.1548, 3 July 1996, S.A. Grubbs, 15&amp;male;, 7&amp;female; (WKUC); Youghioghenny River, 39.5659, -79.4293, 13 July 1996, S.A. Grubbs, 4&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (WKUC). <b>Massachusetts</b>, Worcester Co., Stillwater River, Rte. 140, 5 km E Princeton, 42.4463, -71.8168, 28 June 2006, S.A. Grubbs, 4&amp;male;, 4&amp;female; (WKUC); Burnshirt River, Rte. 62, 5 km ENE Barre, 42.4363, - 72.0528, 28 June 2006, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male; (WKUC). <b>North</b> <b>Carolina</b>, Haywood Co., tributary to Mount Sterling Creek, FR 289, Pisgah National Forest, 35.7452, -83.0700, 11 July 1997, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male;, 4&amp;female; (WKUC); Right Hand Prong, FS 97, Pisgah National Forest, 35.3711, -82.9405, 22 July 2015, A.L. Sheldon, 1&amp;male; (WKUC); Yancey Co., South Toe River, Pisgah National Forest, 35.7517, -82.2205, 17 July 2015, A.L. Sheldon, 2&amp;male; (WKUC). <b>Ohio</b>, Adams Co., Waggoner Run, Abner Hollow, 12 km SE West Union, 38.7179, -83.4343, 19 September 2015, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male;, 11&amp;female; (WKUC). <b>Pennsylvania</b>, Mercer Co., Little Shenango River, 10 km E Greenville, 41.4185, -80.2683, 23 June 1998, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male; (WKUC); Westmoreland Co., Powdermill Run, Powdermill Nature Reserve, 40.1517, -79.2703, 18 August 1993, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male; (WKUC). <b>Rhode Island</b>, Kent Co., Bucks Horn Brook, 14 km NW Exeter, Nicholas Farm Wildlife Management Area, 41.6952, -71.7566, 18 June 2007, S.A. Grubbs, 3&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (WKUC). <b>Tennessee</b>, Cocke Co., Cosby Creek, Rte. 32, 35.7839, -83.2191, 11 July 1997, S.A. Grubbs, 5&amp;male;, 3&amp;female; (WKUC). <b>Virginia</b>, Wythe Co., Reed Creek, FR 221/CR 625, 16 km NW Wytheville, Jefferson National Forest, 36.9809, -81.2801, 24 July 2008, S.A. Grubbs, 1&amp;male;, 4&amp;female; (WKUC); Stony Fork, Reed Creek, U.S. 52, 10 km NW Wytheville, Jefferson National Forest, 36.9774, -81.1864, 24 July 2008, S.A. Grubbs, 2&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (WKUC). <b>West Virginia</b>, Greenbrier Co., Rt. 14, 3 mi E Neola, 6 September 2008, L. T. Miller, 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (DCTC); Mercer Co., Camp Creek State Forest, 18 September 2008, L. T. Miller, 1&amp;male; (DCTC); Randolph Co., nr. Laneville, Dolly Sods, 25 September 2008, L. T. Miller, 1&amp;male; (DCTC); Tucker Co., Red Creek, Laneville, 20 August 2011, no collector information, 2&amp;male;, 3&amp;female; (DCTC). <b>Distribution</b>. Canada: NB, NS, ON, PQ. USA: AL, AR, CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, VA, WI, WV (DeWalt et al. 2015), NC, RI (new state records). <b>Remarks</b>. Examination of material from throughout the eastern Nearctic region revealed consistency with the shapes of the paraprocts and the dorsal process on the 7 th abdominal tergum. <i>Leuctra tenuis</i> is a broadly-distributed species known from Quebec and the Canadian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia southwest to Alabama and westward to Minnesota and Oklahoma (DeWalt et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of <i>Grubbs, Scott A., 2015, Leuctra Schusteri, A New Stonefly Species (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) Of The L. Tenuis (Pictet) Group From The Southeastern Usa, pp. 147-166 in Illiesia 11 (12)</i> on pages 156-159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4752768
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