Austroperlidae
{{Short description|Family of stoneflies}}
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| image = Austroperla cyrene.jpg
| image_caption = Austroperla cyrene
| taxon = Austroperlidae
| authority = Tillyard, 1921
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Austroperlidae is a family of stoneflies in the order Plecoptera. There are about 10 genera and 15 described species in Austroperlidae across southern land masses Australia, New Zealand, and South America.Austroperlidae species are unique among stoneflies in having aposematic (warning) colouration.{{cite journal |last1=Foster |first1=Brodie |last2=McCulloch |first2=Graham |last3=Waters |first3=Jonathan |title=Evidence for aposematism in a southern hemisphere stonefly family (Plecoptera: Austroperlidae) |journal=Austral Entomology |date=2021 |volume=60 |page=267-275 |doi=10.1111/aen.12529}} For instance, the New Zealand black stonefly Austroperla is a forest dwelling shredder that is toxic to predators due to its production of hydrogen cyanide.{{cite journal |last1=McLellan |first1=Ian |title=Austroperla cyrene Newman (Plecoptera: Austroperlidae) |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand |date=1997 |volume=27 |pages=271-278 |doi=10.1080/03014223.1997.9517538}} The warning colouration of this species is mimicked by several lineages of the unrelated non-toxic New Zealand stonefly Zelandoperla.{{cite journal |last1=Foster |first1=Brodie |last2=McCulloch |first2=Graham |last3=Foster |first3=Yasmin |last4=Kroos |first4=Gracie |last5=King |first5=Tania |last6=Waters |first6=Jonathan |title=ebony underpins Batesian mimicry in melanic stoneflies |journal=Molecular Ecology |date=2023 |volume=32 |page=4986-4998 |doi=10.1111/mec.17085|doi-access=free }}
Genera
These 10 genera belong to the family Austroperlidae:
- Acruroperla Illies, 1969
- Andesobius McLellan, 2001
- Austroheptura Illies, 1969
- Austropentura Illies, 1969
- Austroperla Needham, 1905
- Crypturoperla Illies, 1969
- Klapopteryx Navás, 1928
- Penturoperla Illies, 1960
- Pseudoheptura Riek, 1973
- Tasmanoperla Tillyard, 1921
References
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{{Cite web| title=Austroperlidae
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/9385
| website=GBIF
| accessdate=2019-05-23
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{{Cite web
| accessdate = 2019-05-23
| title = family Austroperlidae Tillyard, 1921
| date = 2019
| last1 = DeWalt | first1 = R.E.
| last2 = Maehr | first2 = M.D.
| last3 = Neu-Becker | first3 = U.
| last4 = Stueber | first4 = G.
| url = http://plecoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1152785
| website = Plecoptera species file online, Version 5.0
}}
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Further reading
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- {{Cite journal
| title = The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Rocky Mountains [USA]
| date = 1977
| last1 = Baumann
| first1 = Richard W.
| last2 = Gaufin
| first2 = Arden R.
| last3 = Surdick
| first3 = Rebecca F.
| journal = Memoirs of the American Entomological Society
| volume = 31
| url = http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US19780325716
| access-date = 2019-05-24
| archive-date = 2019-04-17
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190417230232/http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US19780325716
| url-status = dead
}}
- {{Cite book
| title = Mayflies and Stoneflies: Life Histories and Biology
| date = 1990
| editor-last1 = Campbell | editor-first1 = Ian C.
| publisher = Springer
| isbn = 978-94-010-7579-4
| doi = 10.1007/978-94-009-2397-3
| s2cid = 39201439
}}
- {{Cite journal
| title = Ohio USA stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera): species richness estimation, distribution of functional niche traits, drainage affiliations, and relationships to other states
| date = 2012
| last1 = DeWalt | first1 = R.
| last2 = Cao | first2 = Y.
| last3 = Tweddale | first3 = T.
| last4 = Grubbs | first4 = S.
| last5 = Hinz | first5 = L.
| last6 = Pessino | first6 = M.
| last7 = Robinson | first7 = J.
| display-authors = 4
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 178| pages = 1–26
| issn = 1313-2989
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.178.2616
| pmc=3317619
| pmid=22539876
| doi-access = free
}}
- {{Cite journal
| title = Biology of plecoptera
| date = 1976
| last1 = Hynes | first1 = H. B. N.
| journal = Annual Review of Entomology
| volume = 21| pages = 135–153
| doi = 10.1146/annurev.en.21.010176.001031
}}
- {{Cite book
| title = Nymphs of North American stonefly genera (Plecoptera)
| date = 1988
| last1 = Stewart | first1 = Kenneth W.
| last2 = Stark | first2 = Bill P.
| publisher = Entomological Society of America
| isbn = 978-0929398556
}}
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