Eucapnopsis Okamoto, 1922

Murányi, Dávid, Li, Weihai & Yang, Ding, 2015, A new genus and species of winter stoneflies (Plecoptera: Capniidae) from Southwest China, with a commented checklist of the family in the Oriental Realm, Zootaxa 4059 (2), pp. 371-382 : 380

Eucapnopsis Okamoto, 1922

The genus is known from the East Palaearctic and the Western Nearctic. There are 3 species known from Asia, reported to occur in Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Only one subspecies is known from the Oriental Realm:

Eucapnopsis stigmatica transversa Aubert, 1959

Aubert 1959: description of male and female, syntypes from Pakistan: Karakoram and Himalayan ranges

(Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Gilgit-Baltistan administrative territory).

Zwick & Sivec 1980: complementary description of female, and first records from Nepal: Dhawalagiri and

Bagmati zones.

Problems with the identity of the taxa, especially unsure distinction from Mongolian and Russian populations of E. brevicauda ( Claassen, 1924) , were noted by Judson & Nelson (2012). The nominal subspecies is known from Japan and South Korea. It has a wide distribution: besides the Central Himalayas and the Karakoram, it is reported from the Palaearctis: Tien Shan and Pamir ranges ( Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan).