Mesocapnia bakeri (Pomona Snowfly)

[another specialist]

Mesocapnia bakeri - (Banks, 1918)
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: Mesocapnia bakeri

Taxonomic Comments: Described from only a single female specimen; needs further taxonomic work.

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

Reasons:
Only known from a single female specimen collected in Claremont California in 1918. Despite repeated efforts, no additional specimens, especially males have been found at or near the type locality. Taxonomic validity unknown.

Nation: United States
National Status: NH

explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.119146/Mesocapnia_bakeri

[Melanie]

27. Capnia bakeri (Banks) Arsapnia bokeri Banks, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard 62, No. 1, p. 9; female. Capnia bakeri Needham and Claassen, 1925, Monog. Plecop., p. 268; female genitalia, pl. 49, fig. 11. Type locality: Mountains near Claremont, Cali- fornia. California record: The female type from near Claremont is the only known specimen.

The Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of California - Essig Museum of Entomology

essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis06_6.pdf

[Melanie]

A monograph of the Plecoptera or stoneflies of America north of Mexico, by J.G. Needham and P.W. Claassen.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6271224#page/274/mode/1up

[Sebbe]

DeWalt, R. E, H. Hopkins, U. Neu-Becker, and G. Stueber. 2023. Plecoptera Species File. Online. Available: plecoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/893013/overview