Plecoptera: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Plecoptera
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Plecoptera
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Plecoptera
Plecoptera is an order of insects commonly known as stoneflies. Some 3,500 species are described worldwide, with new species still being discovered. Stoneflies are found worldwide, except Antarctica. Stoneflies are believed to be one of the most primitive groups of Neoptera, with close relatives identified from the Carboniferous and Lower Permian geological periods, while true stoneflies are known from fossils only a bit younger. Their modern diversity, however, apparently is of Mesozoic origin.
Plecoptera are found in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, and the populations are quite distinct, although the evolutionary evidence suggests species may have crossed the equator on a number of occasions before once again becoming geographically isolated.
All species of Plecoptera are intolerant of water pollution, and the presence of their nymphs in a stream or still water is usually an indicator of good or excellent water quality.
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Plecoptera albipuncta
- Plecoptera amanica
- Plecoptera androconiata
- Plecoptera annexa
- Plecoptera approximans
- Plecoptera arctinotata
- Plecoptera aspila
- Plecoptera bilinealis
- Plecoptera butkevicii
- Plecoptera chalciope
- Plecoptera chrysocephala
- Plecoptera costisignata
- Plecoptera delos
- Plecoptera diaperas
- Plecoptera diplogramma
- Plecoptera diplosticha
- Plecoptera divergens
- Plecoptera fasciata
- Plecoptera ferrilineata
- Plecoptera flava
- Plecoptera flaviceps
- Plecoptera flavilinea
- Plecoptera fletcherana
- Plecoptera geminilinea
- Plecoptera grisea
- Plecoptera griseifusa
- Plecoptera holostoma
- Plecoptera hypoxantha
- Plecoptera infuscata
- Plecoptera inquinata
- Plecoptera lacinia
- Plecoptera laniata
- Plecoptera leucosticha
- Plecoptera luangwana
- Plecoptera luteiceps
- Plecoptera mainty
- Plecoptera major
- Plecoptera malhamana
- Plecoptera megarthra
- Plecoptera melalepis
- Plecoptera melanoscia
- Plecoptera mesostriga
- Plecoptera misera
- Plecoptera mollardi
- Plecoptera nebulilinea
- Plecoptera nigrilunata
- Plecoptera nimba
- Plecoptera oculata
- Plecoptera ovaliplaga
- Plecoptera pallidimargo
- Plecoptera plinthochroa
- Plecoptera poderis
- Plecoptera polymorpha
- Plecoptera punctilineata
- Plecoptera quaesita
- Plecoptera recens
- Plecoptera recta
- Plecoptera reflexa
- Plecoptera resistens
- Plecoptera reussi
- Plecoptera reversa
- Plecoptera rufirena
- Plecoptera sakalava
- Plecoptera sarcistis
- Plecoptera siderogramma
- Plecoptera stigmatica
- Plecoptera stuhlmanni
- Plecoptera thermozona
- Plecoptera trichophora
- Plecoptera trimaculata
- Plecoptera tripalis
- Plecoptera uniformis
- Plecoptera violacea
- Plecoptera xanthoptera
- Plecoptera zonaria






























































































































































