Ostrocerca

Ostrocerca is a genus of spring stoneflies in the family Nemouridae. There are about six described species in Ostrocerca.

Ostrocerca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Plecoptera
Family:	Nemouridae
Subfamily:	Nemourinae
Genus:	Ostrocerca Ricker, 1952

Species

These six species belong to the genus Ostrocerca:

• Ostrocerca albidipennis (Walker, 1852) (white-tailed forestfly)
• Ostrocerca complexa (Claassen, 1937) (notched forestfly)
• Ostrocerca dimicki (Frison, 1936) (hooked forestfly)
• Ostrocerca foersteri (Ricker, 1943)
• Ostrocerca prolongata (Claassen, 1923) (bent forestfly)
• Ostrocerca truncata (Claassen, 1923) (truncate forestfly)

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Baumann, Richard W.; Gaufin, Arden R.; Surdick, Rebecca F. (1977). "The stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the Rocky Mountains [USA]". Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. 31.
• Campbell, Ian C., ed. (1990). Mayflies and stoneflies: Life histories and biology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2397-3. ISBN 978-94-010-7579-4.
• DeWalt, R.; Cao, Y.; Tweddale, T.; Grubbs, S.; et al. (2012). "Ohio USA stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera): species richness estimation, distribution of functional niche traits, drainage affiliations, and relationships to other states". ZooKeys (178): 1. doi:10.3897/zookeys.178.2616. PMC 3317619. PMID 22539876.
• DeWalt, R.E.; Maehr, M.D.; Neu-Becker, U.; Stueber, G. (2013). "Plecoptera species file online. Version 5.0". Retrieved 2018-03-06.
• Hynes, H.B.N. (1976). "Biology of plecoptera". Annual Review of Entomology. 21 (1): 135–153. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.21.010176.001031.
• Stewart, Kenneth W.; Stark, Bill P. (1988). Nymphs of North American stonefly genera (Plecoptera). Entomological Society of America. ISBN 978-0929398556.