Gripopteryx elisae Illies, 1964

Lecci, Lucas Silveira & Froehlich, Claudio Gilberto, 2011, Taxonomic revision of Gripopteryx (Pictet, 1841) (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae), Zootaxa 2792, pp. 1-21 : 9-10

Gripopteryx elisae Illies, 1964

Gripopteryx elisae Illies, 1964 , p. 49.

Gripopteryx elisae — Illies, 1966, p. 30.

Gripopteryx elisae — Froehlich, 1969, p. 19. Gripopteryx elisae — Froehlich, 2010, p 132.

Diagnostic characters. General color brown, extremities and the last two abdominal segments yellowish, length of forewing 10.5 mm; tergum 10 rectangular in dorsal view; paraprocts long, sickle-shaped, compressed, with rounded apex ( Illies 1964); nymph with spines on abdominal terga 1 to 9.

Remarks. The description of G. elisae was based on a newly emerged specimen, which makes it difficult to evaluate the final state of some characters. Gripopteryx elisae has elongate paraprocts that extend above the margin of tergum 10 and a short epiproct. The type was not seen, but Dr. Peter Zwick provided images of the wings, the original illustrations, and clarified some doubts about the morphology of the specimen.