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Styloperlidae

C. Riley Nelson
Containing group: Plecoptera

Introduction

Styloperlidae is a small family from the eastern Palearctic consisting of seven species. Uchida and Isobe (1989) erected it to contain Styloperla and Cerconychia, which were formerly placed as the Styloperlinae in the Peltoperlidae (Zwick 1973).

Characteristics

Uchida and Isobe (1989) list the synapomorphies of the Styloperlidae as: 1, male abdominal sternite 9 with a dense tuft of long thick setae; 2, spurs at the apex of tibia reduced, with trifurcate setae there; 3, abdominal sternite 10 with an X-shaped sclerite.

References

Uchida, S. and Y. Isobe. 1989. Styloperlidae, stat. nov. and Microperlinae subfam. nov. with a revised sysem of the family group Systellognatha. Spixiana 12: 145-182.

Zwick, P. 1973. Insecta: Plecoptera. Phylogenetisches System und Katalog. Das Tierreich 94. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin. 465 pp.

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C. Riley Nelson
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

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Nelson, C. Riley. 1996. Styloperlidae. Version 01 January 1996 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Styloperlidae/13949/1996.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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