Zelandoperla

{{Short description|Genus of stoneflies}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2024}}

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|image=Zelandoperla fenestrata species group.jpg

|image_caption=Zelandoperla fenestrata

|taxon = Zelandoperla

|authority = Tillyard, 1923

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Zelandoperla is a genus of ‘long-tailed’ stoneflies endemic to New Zealand, placed within Southern Hemisphere family Gripopterygidae.{{cite journal |last1=McLellan |first1=Ian |title=A revision of Zelandoperla Tillyard (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae: Zelandoperlinae) |journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology |date=1999 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=199–219 |doi=10.1080/03014223.1999.9518190}}

Zelandoperla species occur in high-gradient, stoney streams throughout New Zealand, where they feed predominantly on biofilms.

The currently recognised species are:

• Zelandoperla agnetis (McLellan 1967)
• Zelandoperla decorata (Tillyard 1923)
• Zelandoperla denticulata (McLellan 1967)
• Zelandoperla fenestrata (Tillyard 1923)
• Zelandoperla maungatuaensis (Foster, McCulloch & Waters 2019)

Two additional described species (Zelandoperla pennulata; Zelandoperla tillyardi) are now considered to be ecotypes of the polymorphic Z. fenestrata.{{cite journal |last1=McCulloch |first1=Graham |last2=Foster |first2=Brodie |last3=Dutoit |first3=Ludovic |last4=Harrop |first4=Thomas |last5=Guhlin |first5=Joseph |last6=Dearden |first6=Peter |last7=Waters |first7=Jonathan |title=Genomics Reveals Widespread Ecological Speciation in Flightless Insects |journal=Systematic Biology |date=2021 |volume=70 |issue=5 |pages=863–876 |doi=10.1093/sysbio/syaa094|pmid=33346837 }}{{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 |issue=18 |pages=4986–4998 |doi=10.1111/mec.17085|doi-access=free |pmid=37503654 |bibcode=2023MolEc..32.4986F }}