Allocapnia rickeri Frison
Creators: name: Nations, Tina M.
name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Hicks, Matthew B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Capniidae
Allocapnia
Allocapnia rickeri

description: <i>Allocapnia rickeri</i> Frison <i>Allocapnia rickeri</i> Frison,1942. Holotype male, Big Grand Pierre River, Golconda, Pope County, Illinois. <b>Distribution.</b> AL, AR, DC, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, KY, MD, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, OH, OK, ON, PA, TN, VA, WI, WV (Stark &amp; Baumann 2006). Mississippi populations have been reported only in Tishomingo County (Stark 1979). Mississippi collection data. (Fig. 31). Tishomingo <b>Co.</b>, Clear Creek, Hwy 72, 4 miles East of Iuka, 34 <b>°</b> 46’ 40.4” N, 88 <b>°</b> 08’ 46.6” W, 10 February 1979, B. Stark, P. Hartfield and C. Cooper, 2 &amp;female;; Same location, 8 January 2007, B. Stark, 43 &amp;male;, 6 &amp;female;; Tributary of Bear Creek, Tishomingo State Park, 10 February 1979, B. Stark, P. Lago, P. Hartfield and C. Cooper, 8 &amp;male;, 5 &amp;female;; Tishomingo State Park, 5 February 1992, M. Caterino, 1 &amp;male; (University of Mississippi); Same location, 16 January 1981, J. Goddard, 1 &amp;female; (University of Mississippi); Samelocation, 8 February 1986, S. Testa, 1 &amp;female; (University of Mississippi). <i>Allocapnia rickeri</i> <b>Male epiproct.</b> Epiproctupper limb long, somewhat spear&amp;hyphen; shaped in dorsal aspect, with no basal angulation (Fig. 32), and the tip bears a small, swollen sectioncovered with shortridges and ashort mesal groove(Figs. 33&amp;hyphen;34). Posteriorto groovedapical section, a long, low, median ridgeextends formost of upper limb length (Fig. 32), and a broad, shallow, median trough extends forward from base. In lateral aspect, short apical section reflexed slightly downward (Fig. 33) and some ridges have obscure undulations similar to those of <i>A. aurora</i> (Fig. 35). <b>Maletergal process.</b> The tergal processrises from the 8 th abdominal segment as two knobs covered with scale&amp;hyphen; like tubercles; knobs widely separatedbynotch which extends completelyto base of process (Fig.36). In lateral aspect, anterior margin of process projects somewhat higher than posterior margin. <b>Female subgenital plate.</b> Abdominal sterna 7 and 8 joined bybridge scleritebut bridgenarrowlynotched on midlateral margins by membrane (Figs. 37, 63). Apex of subgenital plate truncate and scarcely projecting beyond lateral margins of sternum 8.
description: Published as part of <i>Nations, Tina M., Stark, Bill P. &amp; Hicks, Matthew B., 2007, The Winter Stoneflies (Plecoptera: Capniidae) Of Mississippi, pp. 70-94 in Illiesia 3 (9)</i> on pages 82-83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4759885
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.", "Stark, B. P. &amp; R. W. Baumann. 2006. Valid stonefly names for North America (http: // plsa. inhs. - uiuc. edu / plecoptera / validnames. aspx).", "Stark, B. P. 1979. The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Mississippi. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, 24: 109 - 122."]}