Protonemura aculeata Theischinger, 1976

Murányi, Dávid, Manko, Peter, Kovács, Tibor, Vinçon, Gilles, Žiak, Matej, Kerimova, Ilhama G., Snegovaya, Nataly Yurievna & Oboňa, Jozef, 2021, Review and contribution to the stonefly (Insecta: Plecoptera) fauna of Azerbaijan, Zootaxa 4975 (1), pp. 58-80 : 67

Protonemura aculeata Theischinger, 1976

Şəki-Zaqatala region: 20: 4♀ (HNHM); 25: 1♀ (HNHM), 1♂ 1♀ (LMEE); 34: 1♂ (HNHM).

Remarks. A common species in the Greater Caucasus ( Georgia, Krasnodar Krai, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia), Lesser Caucasus ( Armenia, Georgia), the Pontic region of Anatolia and the Alborz of Iran ( Theischinger 1976, Zhiltzova 1988, Vinçon & Zhiltzova 2004). It emerges in spring, and was reported to be highly variable in the whole of its range ( Zhiltzova 1988, Vinçon & Zhiltzova 2004). The Azerbaijan specimen was found along fast, often cascading streams of the Greater Caucasus in May. New for the fauna of Azerbaijan.