Template:Peltoperlidae

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Peltoperlidae

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Order
Plecoptera
Family
Peltoperlidae


Common name
The Little Roach-like Stonefly
Tied fly
Yellow Humpy
Peltoperlidae have stout, roach-like bodies and can have conical gills at the base of legs. Ventral overlapping plates are found on their large thorax. They have a single gill on each side posterior to thoracic segment 3. Peltoperlidae is not covered in the family-level key (Bouchard 2006) used by the Streams Project.

Image of the single gill on each side posterior to thoracic segment 3.