The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Plecoptera

(Stoneflies)

LEUCTRIDAE

Zealeuctra hitei Ricker & Ross    

Texas Needlefly


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Synonyms: 

 

 
Distribution Citations

1968 Ricker & Ross

1974 Stewart Baumann Stark

[1988 Stewart & Stark]

1996 Szczytko & Stewart
[1998 NASL]
1998 Stark Szczytko Nelson

 

[2002 Stewart & Stark]
2003 Favret
2003 Kondratieff & Baumann
2008 Illinois Natural History
         Survey
[2008 NatureServe]

 

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-New Species (Ricker & Ross 1968)

-Endemic to Texas (Szczytko & Stewart 1977)

-widespread in small intermittant streams with limestone substrates ; nymphs in stony stubstrates and sometimes in submerged leaf debris (Szczytko & Stewart 1977)
copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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