Perlesta cinctipes (Banks, 1905)

Plains Stone

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(Figs. 5 & 11)

Perlinella cinctipes Banks 1905:56 . Lectotype ♂ (MCZC), Onaga, (Pottawatomie Co.), Kansas.

Perlesta cinctipes: Stark 1989:270

Perlesta cinctipes: Poulton & Stewart 1991:39

Perlesta cinctipes: Stark 2004:91

Distribution. USA: AR, IA, IL, KS, MO, NE, OK (DeWalt et al. 2018)

Remarks. Perlesta cinctipes is distributed from Nebraska south into the Interior Highlands region of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and east only to western Illinois (Fig. 11a; DeWalt et al. 2018). All previously published records from Indiana (DeWalt & Grubbs 2011), Kentucky (Tarter et al. 2006, 2015), Ohio (Stark 2004, Grubbs et al. 2013, DeWalt et al. 2016), and West Virginia (Tarter & Nelson 2006), either as P. cinctipes or P. I-4, now refer to P. armitagei sp. nov. (see below). The record of P. cinctipes from Illinois as noted above represents the eastern known extent of this species range (DeWalt et al. 2001).