Isoperla maxana (Minnesota Stripetail)

[another specialist]

Isoperla maxana - Harden and Mickel, 1952
A Stonefly

Concept Reference: Stark, B. 1996, October 12, 1998 last update. North American Stonefly List. Online. Available: www.mc.edu/campus/users/stark/stonefly.html. 1996, December 23.
Concept Reference Code: N96STA01EHUS
Name Used in Concept Reference: Isoperla maxana

Taxonomic Comments: Described from a single male specimen; further taxonomic work is needed.

Global Status: GHQ
Global Status Last Reviewed: 20Sep1999
Global Status Last Changed: 20Sep1999
Rounded Global Status: GH - Possibly Extinct

Reasons:
Only known from one male collected from the Fishhook River, Hubbard County, Minnesota in 1952. Taxonomic validity will be clarified by the revision of eastern North American ISOPERLA by S.W. Szczytko.

Nation: United States
National Status: NH

www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Isoperla+maxana

[Bowhead Whale]

What are "Isoperla", exactly?

[Sebbe]

A Review of the Eastern Nearctic Isoperlinae (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) with the description of twenty-two new species

This species may have been extirpated due to the impoundment, increased urban development, and agriculture in the watershed since 1948.

illiesia.speciesfile.org/papers/Monographiae-of-Illiesia.pdf