Perlesta

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Anartioptera
Magnordo: Polyplecoptera
Superordo: Plecopterida
Ordo: Plecoptera
Subordo: Arctoperlaria
Infraordo: Systellognatha
Superfamilia: Perloidea

Familia: Perlidae
Subfamilia: Acroneuriinae
Tribus: Acroneuriini
Genus: Perlesta
Species: P. armitagei – P. baumanni – P. bjostadi – P. cranshawi – P. leathermani –P. sublobata
Name

Perlesta Banks, 1906
References

Banks, N. 1906. On the perlid genus Chloroperla. Entomological News 17: 174–175. BHL Reference page.
Grubbs, S.A. & DeWalt, R.E. 2018. Perlesta armitagei n. sp. (Plecoptera: Perlidae): More cryptic diversity in darkly pigmented Perlesta from the eastern Nearctic. Zootaxa 4442(1): 83–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.1.4 Paywall Reference page.
South, E.J., DeWalt, R.E., Davis, M.A. & Thomas, M.J. 2019. A new stonefly species (Plecoptera, Perlidae) from the Interior Highlands USA, with morphological and molecular comparison to other congeneric species. Zookeys, 858: 45–70. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.858.33818 Reference page.

Perlesta is a genus of common stoneflies in the family Perlidae. There are more than 30 described species in Perlesta.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These 33 species belong to the genus Perlesta:

Perlesta adena Stark, 1989
Perlesta armitagei Grubbs & DeWalt, 2018
Perlesta baumanni Stark, 1989
Perlesta beatyi Kondratieff, Zuellig & Lenat, 2011
Perlesta bjostadi Kondratieff & Lenat, 2006
Perlesta bolukta Stark, 1989
Perlesta browni Stark, 1989
Perlesta chaoi Wu, 1948
Perlesta cinctipes (Banks, 1905)
Perlesta cranshawi Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2006
Perlesta dakota Kondratieff & Baumann, 1999
Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)
Perlesta durfeei Kondratieff, Zuellig & Kirchner, 2008
Perlesta ephelida Grubbs & DeWalt, 2012
Perlesta etnieri Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2002
Perlesta frisoni Banks, 1948
Perlesta fusca Poulton & Stewart, 1991
Perlesta georgiae Kondratieff, Zuellig & Lenat, 2008
Perlesta golconda DeWalt & Stark, 1998
Perlesta lagoi Stark, 1989
Perlesta leathermani Kondratieff & Zuellig, 2006
Perlesta mihucorum Kondratieff & Myers, 2011
Perlesta nelsoni Stark, 1989 (pale stone)
Perlesta nitida Banks, 1948 (tiny stone)
Perlesta ouabache Grubbs & DeWalt, 2011
Perlesta placida (Hagen, 1861)
Perlesta puttmanni Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2003
Perlesta roblei Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2003
Perlesta shawnee Grubbs, 2005
Perlesta shubuta Stark, 1989
Perlesta spatulata Wu, 1938
Perlesta teaysia Kirchner & Kondratieff, 1997
Perlesta xube Stark & Rhodes, 1997 (Pawnee stone)

References

"Perlesta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
"Perlesta". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
"Perlesta genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-19.

DeWalt, R.E.; Maehr, M.D.; Neu-Becker, U.; Stueber, G. (2019). "genus Perlesta Banks, 1906". Plecoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.