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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Stoneflies (Plecoptera) » Perloidea » Common Stoneflies (Perlidae) » Acroneuriinae » Perlesta » Perlesta nitida
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Stonefly - Perlesta nitida - female
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Stonefly - Perlesta nitida - Female
Shirley, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 20, 2009
Size: 12mm to wingtip
Caught in a sweep net in vegetation along the bank of the Nashua River.
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Contributed by tom murray on 21 June, 2009 - 10:49am
Last updated 26 October, 2009 - 8:50pm

Moved
Moved from Perlesta.
… tom murray, 6 July, 2009 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

Perlesta nitida
Lloyd hit the nail on the head. A female, and fits the description well of the female of nitida. Fortunately the males were taken at the same time, as the two sexes are different enough in color pattern to have made me relunctant to present an id.
… Donald S. Chandler, 4 July, 2009 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Stoneflies.
… tom murray, 21 June, 2009 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

Perlesta
This is probably the female to go with the male you photographed at the same time.
… Lloyd Gonzales, 21 June, 2009 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

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