I'd spend my holidays in Bieszczady mountains, South Poland this late Spring. I'd met a lot of interesting insects there. Could you help me to identify them? What insect is it?
Barbara:
Your specimen is a stonefly, It belongs to the order Plecoptera. The nymphs (technically, "naiads") are aquatic and live in the benthic zone of well-oxygenated lakes and streams. I do not know the fauna of Poland so I can not ID to species level.
Regards,
Luis Miguel
Barbara:
Your specimen is a stonefly, It belongs to the order Plecoptera. The nymphs (technically, "naiads") are aquatic and live in the benthic zone of well-oxygenated lakes and streams. I do not know the fauna of Poland so I can not ID to species level.
Regards,
Luis Miguel
Mr. Luis Miguel Constantino is absolutely right.
Dear Barbara, it is a stonefly (Plecoptera), an Orthopteroid insect. I am not an expert on it but searching the image in the Insects of the World by Anthony Wootton (1984) which I have in my possession, I came to the same conclusion and your specimen just might belong to the Genus Perla.
I can help you this much with your specimen.
Regards,
Dr. Abhishek Mukherjee
Thanks a lot. Order: Plecoptera Superfamily: Pteronarcyoidea Family: Peltoperlidae Genus: Sierraperla (image I've found at wiki) seems to be pretty similar, indeed (though there are significant differences).
OK. I'd likely spot this:
Order: Plecoptera Family: Perlidae Genus: Perla marginata
or Perla maxima Scopoli
http://nature.land.kiev.ua/RB_94/82.htm
It was really big (ca.2'')
Dear Barbara Motyka,
I think Perla maxima is a synonym of Perla marginata.
Please have a look at these links.
http://eol.org/pages/485533/names/synonyms
https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/65585/tab/taxo?lg=en
http://dc.smnh.org/species/detail/species-896.html
Good luck!
Dear Barbara Motyka,
Please also check it as Perla grandis, which has been reported from mountain streams in several European countries including Poland. Please have a look at this useful ResearchGate link.
Article Historic and current distribution of an endangered stonefly ...
Good luck!
Thanks You a lot, Dr. Arvind Singh,
From my 'or' it was not clear enough, indeed ;-)
Perla maxima (Scopoli, 1763) source: Catalogue of Life - Synonym of Perla marginata (Panzer, 1799) https://www.gbif.org/species/5152228
Also: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0
Веснянка велика — один з кількох десятків видів голарктичного роду, один з 4 видів роду у фауні України. Вперше вид описав Джованні Скополі, давши йому назву maxima, що в перекладі значить «найбільша». Прийнята зараз назва marginata була дана Георгом Панцером і в перекладі означає «облямована».
From A comparison between local emergence patterns of Perla grandis and Perla marginata (Plecoptera, Perlidae) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-008-9359-3 by Stefano Fenoglio, Tiziano Bo, José Manuel Tierno de Figueroa, Manuel Jesus López-Rodríguez and Giorgio Malacarne I conclude that these are two differet Systellognatha stoneflies this time ;-)
Perla marginata and P. grandis (Plecoptera: Perlidae):
P. grandis by Piotr Żogała https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0JJCEh-uI
Perla marginata by Josef Dvořák https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id328117/
For comparison: Dinocras cephalotes (Curtis, 1827) by Romana Plačková https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id273784/
Hello, on the last photo is a male Panorpa sp. (Mecoptera: Panorpidae).
Thanos
Thanks a lot Athanasios G Mpamnaras and Dewanand Makhan . I've spot it at wild flower of lily in Cortina d"Ampezzo Valley.
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