Template:Peltoperlidae
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Peltoperlidae
- 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.
