Corrected type locality designation for Acroneuria covelli Grubbs & Stark, 2004 (Insecta, Plecoptera)

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Grubbs, Scott A. 2017. Corrected type locality designation for Acroneuria covelli Grubbs & Stark, 2004 (Insecta,
Plecoptera). Illiesia, 13(08):94-95. https://doi.org/10.25031/2017/13.08/

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CORRECTED TYPE LOCALITY DESIGNATION FOR ACRONEURIA COVELLI
GRUBBS & STARK, 2004 (INSECTA, PLECOPTERA)

Scott A. Grubbs

Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity Studies, Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green, KY 42101, U.S.A.
E-mail: [email protected]

ABSTRACT
An erroneously listed type locality for Acroneuria covelli Grubbs & Stark, 2004 is noted herein and replaced
with the actual location where the type specimen was collected. The common name River Stone is a
replacement name for Shawnee Stone, which is currently also in use for Perlesta shawnee Grubbs, 2005.

Keywords: Plecoptera, Perlidae, Acroneuria covelli, type locality

INTRODUCTION Plecoptera Species File (DeWalt et al. 2017).
During current work on Indiana stoneflies it was In addition, the common name River Stone is
discovered that the type locality for Acroneuria proposed as a replacement name for Shawnee Stone
covelli Grubbs & Stark, 2004 was listed erroneously (Stark et al. 2012), which is currently also in use for
as “New Albany”. This was subsequently carried Perlesta shawnee Grubbs, 2005. The use of Shawnee
forward in Stark (2004). Although the actual type Stone was applied for both species inadvertently by
locality was correctly georeferenced by the author Stark (2004).
with Acme Mapper 2.1 (https://mapper.acme.com)
during follow up work on the fauna of the state ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
(DeWalt & Grubbs 2011), “Jeffersonville” is the city I thank Dr. R. Edward DeWalt (Illinois National
where the holotype (28 June 2002) and some History Survey, Champaign, Illinois) for pointing
paratype specimens (28 June 2002; 5 July 2003) were out the holotype locality problem.
collected. The holotype and paratype labels in
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Grubbs, Scott A. 2017. Corrected type locality designation for Acroneuria covelli Grubbs & Stark, 2004 (Insecta, Plecoptera). Illiesia,
13(08): 94-95. https://doi.org/10.25031/2017/13.08/

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Submitted 31 October 2017, Accepted 1 November 2017,
Published 7 November 2017

Hosted and published at the University of Illinois, Illinois
Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.
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