Notoperla Enderlein, 1909

McLellan, Ian, Mercado, Maritza & Elliott, Simon, 2005, A New Species Of Notoperla (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) From Chile, Illiesia 1 (5), pp. 33-39 : 33-34

Notoperla Enderlein, 1909

Notoperla Enderlein, 1909, p. 393 .

Senzilla Navás, 1917, p. 192 .

Abranchioperla Illies, 1958, p. 123 .

Notoperla, Illies, 1963, pp. 163 – 171 .

Type species Notoperla fuegiana ( Enderlein 1905)

Illies (1958) described Abranchioperla archiplatae from larvae only and proposed the genus Abranchioperla and the family Abranchioperlidae to contain the species Abranchioperla archiplatae . He based the generic and family name on the lack of anal gill filaments in larvae and chose as the holotype a larva from a mountain stream at 2000m by Lo Valdés near Santiago, Chile (33 ° 45´00’’ S).

Illies (1960) gave a diagnosis for Abranchioperlidae , described and illustrated the female of Abranchioperla archiplatae from a female from Rio Murta which flows into Lago Buenos Aires (46 ° 30’ 00’’ S) and illustrated a larva from Rio San Ricardo in Tierra del Fuego. In 1963 Illies revised Notoperla and declared Abranchioperla a new synonym. He also stated that his 1960 A. archiplatae larval illustration was that of the larva of Notoperla fuegiana and that the female he described was a N. tunelina female. He then invalidly designated as holotype of Notoperla archiplatae a male from Las Trancas, Cordillero Nuble, Chile (36 ° 56´00’’ S) and the previous holotype larva as a paratype. For the 3 species known at that stage he supplied a distribution map showing Notoperla fuegiana restricted to Tierra del Fuego; N. tunelina from Patagonia to Chiloe Island and N. archiplatae above there to about level with Santiago.

Illies (1963) is still the authority on Notoperla but should be used carefully for 3 reasons. There is still insufficient information on the known species, there may be other undescribed species and the distribution map may not show the true distribution of the species.