Perlesta cinctipes ( Banks, 1905 )

Grubbs, Scott A. & Dewalt, R. Edward, 2018, Perlesta armitagei n. sp. (Plecoptera: Perlidae): More cryptic diversity in darkly pigmented Perlesta from the eastern Nearctic, Zootaxa 4442 (1), pp. 83-100 : 88

Perlesta cinctipes ( Banks, 1905)

Plains Stone

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Perlinella cinctipes Banks 1905:56 . Lectotype ♂ ( MCZC), Onaga , (Pottawatomie Co.), Kansas.

Perlesta cinctipes: Stark 1989:270

Perlesta cinctipes: Poulton & Stewart 1991:39

Perlesta cinctipes: Stark 2004:91

Distribution. USA: AR, IA, IL, KS, MO, NE, OK ( DeWalt et al. 2018)

Remarks. Perlesta cinctipes is distributed from Nebraska south into the Interior Highlands region of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and east only to western Illinois ( Fig. 11a ; DeWalt et al. 2018). All previously published records from Indiana (DeWalt & Grubbs 2011), Kentucky (Tarter et al. 2006, 2015), Ohio ( Stark 2004, Grubbs et al. 2013, DeWalt et al. 2016), and West Virginia ( Tarter & Nelson 2006), either as P. cinctipes or P. I-4, now refer to P. armitagei sp. nov. (see below). The record of P. cinctipes from Illinois as noted above represents the eastern known extent of this species range ( DeWalt et al. 2001).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Perlesta cinctipes. a–b, Arkansas, unknown locality; c–f, Missouri, South Moreau Creek; a, c, male, head + pronotum, dorsal profile; b, d, female, head + pronotum, dorsal profile; e, right paraproct, lateral view, 180X; f, right paraproct, lateral view, 330X.

FIGURE 11. Distribution maps of Perlesta based on material examined during this study. a, P. adena, P. browni, P. cinctipes, and P. xube; b, P. armitagei sp. nov. The record from northern West Virginia (red circle; Tarter & Nelson 2006) is conditional since that material was not available for study. The type locality is represented by the purple circle.