Aquatic Invertebrate Fauna of the Taiga Forest LTER Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Monument Creek, and West Fork of the Chena River    

I. INSECTA

• A. Collembola

  B. Ephemeroptera

  • 1. Baetidae
    • a. Baetis^1,2

    2. Ephemerellidae

    • a. Drunella²

      b. Ephemerella²

    3. Heptageniidae

    • a. Cinygma²

      b. Cinygmula^1,2

      c. Epeorus^1,2

      d. Ironodes²

    4. Siphlonuridae

    • a. Ameletus^1,2

      b. Siphlonurus²

  C. Plecoptera

  • 1. Capniidae¹
    • a. Capnia confusa²

      b. Capnia petila²

      c. Eucapnopsis brevicauda²

      d. Utacapnia columbiana²

    2. Chloroperlidae

    • a. Alloperla delicta²

      b. Alloperla serrata²

      c. Neaviperla forcipata²

      d. Paraperla frontalis²

      e. Plumiperla sp.¹

      f. Suwallia pallidula²

      g. Triznaka diversa²

      h. Utaperla sopladora²

    3. Leuctridae

    • a. Paraleuctra¹

      b. Paraleuctra vershina²

    4. Nemouridae

    • a. Nemoura¹

      b. Podmosta¹

      c. Zapada sp.¹

      d. Zapada cinctipes¹

      e. Zapada glacier²

      f. Zapada haysi²

    5. Perlodidae

    • a. Diura¹

      b. Isoperla sordida²

    6. Pteronarcydae

    • a. Pteronarcella¹

    7. Taeniopterygidae

    • a. Taenionema pacificum²

  D. Hemiptera

  • 1. Corixidae
    • a. Sigaria (?)¹

  E. Trichoptera

  • 1. Brachycentridae
    • a. Brachycentrus americanus²

    2. Glossosomatidae

    • a. Glossosoma alascense²

      b. Glossosoma verdona²

    3. Limnephilidae

    • a. Apatania crymophila²

      b. Chyranda centralis^1,2

      c. Hydatophylax variabilis²

      d. Ecclisomyia¹

      e. Ecclisomyia conspersa²

      f. Onocosmoecus unicolor²

      g. Psychoglypha (?)¹

    4. Rhyacophildae

    • a. Rhyacophila¹

      b. Rhyacophila vofixa²

  F. Diptera

  • 1. Ceratopogonidae¹
    • Culicoides³

    2. Chironomidae^1,2

    • a. Brillia sp.²

      b. Corynoneura sp.²

      c. Cricotopus tremulus group²

      d. Diamesia spp. (at least four species)²

      e. Pagastia sp.²

      f. Pseudodiamesa sp.²

      g. Rheocricotopus sp.²

      h. Tanytarsus sp.²

      i. Thienemanniella xena²

      j. Tuetenia bavarica group²

    3. Dixidae

    • a. Dixa^1,3

    4. Dolichopodidae

    5. Empididae

    • a. Chelifera¹

      b. Clinocera³

      c. Oreogeton¹

    6. Psychodidae

    • a. Pericoma/Telmatoscopus¹

    7. Simuliidae

    • a. Gymnopais^1,3

      b. Prosimulium^1,2

      c. Simulium²

    8. Tipulidae

    • a. Dicranota¹

      b. Molophius³

      c. Ormosia (?)¹

      d. Tipula²

II. OLIGOCHAETA¹

III. NEMATODA¹

IV. HYDRACARINA¹

V. PLATYHELMINTHES¹

¹ Little Poker Creek. See Oswood et al. (1984, 1989). These identifications were done by CA Cowan and JG Irons on samples from one sub-basin in CPCRW (C4, or Little Poker Creek). They were done before publication of the major Plecoptera key, Stewart, K. W., and B. P. Stark. 1988. Nymphs of North American stonefly genera (Plecoptera), so some identifications may have changed since then.

² Monument Creek and West Fork of the Chena River. See Cowan et al. 1983, Howe 1981, Irons 1985, 1988 for details of identifications. See Irons (1993) for details of the Chironomidae identifications by S Peek.

³Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, six sites (C2 trib, C2, C3, CB, CJ, PC) on a size gradient from first to fourth order. See Smidt (1997, currently in progress) for details.

Keys used for identifications in CPCRW and Monument Creek:

Merritt, R. W., and K. W. Cummins. 1984. An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America, 2nd ed. Kendall/Hunt Publ. Co., Dubuque.

Wiggins, G. B. 1977. Larvae of the North American caddisfly genera (Trichoptera). Univ. Toronto Press, Toronto.

Edmunds, G. F., Jr., S. L. Jensen, and L. Berner. 1976. The mayflies of North and Central America. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

Notes:
There are likely many genera and species of Chironomidae; however, they have never been identified to a level below family in CPCRW. In Monument Creek, as part of the dissertation project of JG Irons, S Peek identified several genera of Chironomidae; these have not been verified.
 

Literature Cited
 

Cowan, C.A. 1983. Phenology of detritus input, storage and processing in an Alaskan subarctic stream. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
 

Cowan, C.A., M.W. Oswood, C.A. Buttimore, and P.W. Flanagan. 1983. Processing and macroinvertebrate colonization of detritus in an Alaskan subarctic stream. Holarct. Ecol. 6: 340-348.

Howe, A.L. 1981. Life histories and community structures of Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera in two Alaskan subarctic streams. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Irons, J.G., III. 1985. The life histories and community structure of the caddisflies (Trichoptera) of two Alaskan subarctic streams. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Irons, J.G., III. 1988. Life history patterns and trophic ecology of Trichoptera in two Alaskan (U.S.A.) subarctic streams. Can. J. Zool. 66: 1258-1265.

Irons, J.G., III. 1993. Latitudinal gradients in leaf litter decomposition in streams: effects of chemistry and temperature. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK.

Oswood, M.W., J.G. Irons III, J.W. Hilgert, and C.W. Slaughter. 1989. Effects of riparian vegetation removal on an Alaskan subarctic stream. Pages 3-13 in W.S. Ashton, ed. Groundwater: Alaska's hidden resource. Proceedings, Am. Water Resources Assoc. March 1989, Chena Hot Springs Resort, AK. Water Res. Ctr. Rep. IWR-112, Inst. N. Engr., University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK.

Oswood, M.W., C.W. Slaughter, and J.W. Hilgert. 1984. Effects of vegetation removal in an Alaskan subarctic watershed: preimpact benthic invertebrate studies. Pages 183-193 in S. R. Bredthauer, ed. Alaska's water: a critical resource. Proc. Amer. Water Res. Assoc. Report IWR-106, Inst. Water Res., University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Smidt, S.M. 1997. Upublished data associated with Master's degree thesis.

This document was compiled by John G. Irons III
Last revised: 14 November 1996.

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