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Issue: Vol. 3866 No. 1: 22 Sept. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-09-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.1.7
Page range: 131–137
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

Discovery of new populations and DNA barcoding of the Arapahoe snowfly Arsapnia arapahoe (Plecoptera: Capniidae)

Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, U.S.A.
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, U.S.A.
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, U.S.A.
Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, U.S.A.
stoneflies aquatic insects Arsapnia Capnia arapahoe COI DNA barcoding integrative taxonomy

Abstract

The Arapahoe Snowfly, Arsapnia arapahoe (Nelson & Kondratieff)was recently discovered in six different first-order streams outside of the Cache la Poudre River Basin where it was previously considered endemic. Specimens of A. arapahoe were always collected in much lower relative abundance, 1.09% (±2.3SD), than other sympatric adult capniids. The first mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) barcodes for A. arapahoe and A. coyote (Nelson & Baumann) are presented and compared with those of A. decepta. DNA barcoding was not able to differentiate between A. arapahoe and A. decepta Banks but it was able to indicate that A. coyote is specifically distinct.