Taeniopteryx ugola Ricker and Ross

Earle, Jane I., 2009, New State Stonefly (Plecoptera) Records For Pennsylvania, With Additional Records And Information On Rare Species, Illiesia 5 (16), pp. 169-181 : 176

Taeniopteryx ugola Ricker and Ross ,

which ranges through the Appalachians from Pennsylvania south to Georgia, is generally restricted to the headwaters of cold small and medium sized creeks in Pennsylvania. Only 3 previous records exist, from Cambria and Cumberland Counties ( Masteller 1996). Taeniopteryx ugola , which appears to be the only Taeniopteryx species collected in Pennsylvania creeks with pH less than 5.5 and with summer-fall stream dry periods, has been most frequently collected from upper Mountain Creek in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

New records: LEBANON: (S) Indiantown Run, PA Rte. 443 at gap in mountain, 20 February 2004, 2♂; PERRY: (S) Shaeffer Run, 2 nd Narrows Road, 24 March 1995, 1♀ (LJ); SCHUYLKILL: (S) Catawissa Creek , Girard Manor Road, 13 January 2004, 3♂; unnamed tributary to Tomhicken Creek , PA Rte. 934, 19 March 2003, 1♂.