Chloroperla is a genus of European stone-flies, erected by Edward Newman in 1836;[1] it is the type genus of family Chloroperlidae, subfamily Chloroperlinae and tribe Chloroperlini Okamoto, 1912. Species are distributed in western Palaearctic freshwater habitats: especially Europe and including the British Isles. [2]
Chloroperla | |
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Chloroperla sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Plecoptera |
Superfamily: | Perloidea |
Family: | Chloroperlidae |
Subfamily: | Chloroperlinae |
Genus: | Chloroperla Newman, 1836 |
Synonyms | |
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Species
editHynes[3] provides a key to the species. The Plecoptera Species File[2] lists:
- Chloroperla acuta Berthélemy & Whytton da Terra, 1980
- Chloroperla brachyptera (Schoenemund, 1926)
- Chloroperla breviata Navás, 1918
- Chloroperla kisi Zwick, 1967
- Chloroperla kosarovi Braasch, 1969
- Chloroperla nevada Zwick, 1967
- Chloroperla russevi Braasch, 1969
- Chloroperla susemicheli Zwick, 1967
- Chloroperla tripunctata (Scopoli, 1763) - type species (as Phryganea tripunctata Scopoli, by subsequent designation[4])
- Chloroperla zhiltzovae Zwick, 1967
References
editExternal links
edit- Media related to Chloroperla at Wikimedia Commons