taxonID	type	description	language	source
825487EFFF81FF8DFF27F948168FF9A9.taxon	diagnosis	Generic and species diagnoses. The generic diagnosis of a bristly (hairy) body separating Paracapnia larvae from those of the other capniid genera (Stewart & Stark 1988, 2002) is upheld by this study of P. disala, but their mention and illustration of “ a few short intercalary bristles ” on the cercal segments of P. angulata was incorrect. I have reexamined their P. angulata larval material from Wythe County Virginia, and specimens from Wisconsin and West Virginia, and there are no intercalary hairs present on cercal segments, as is also the case with P. disala (Fig. 1 F); therefore, absence of cercal intercalary hairs is the current generic interpretation for Paracapnia. There is interesting species difference between larvae of the eastern P. angulata and western P. disala. Those of P. angulata have macropterous wingpads, and the lacinia bears a short ventral comb of 6 or 7 medium length bristles (Figs. 4 - 5), whereas those of P. disala are apterous, with no wingpads (Fig. 1 A), and the lacinia bears a long ventral comb of 12 - 14 long bristles (Figs. 2 - 3). The mandibles of both species are similar in teeth, molar pad, and brush of long, bristly hairs in the palm (Figs. 6 - 8). It will be interesting in future study of the larvae of Paracapnia opis and those of the three other western Paracapnia species to see if the same east-west wingpad condition / lacinial differences hold.	en	Stewart, Kenneth W. (2010): The Larva Of Paracapnia Disala (Jewett) (Plecoptera: Capniidae). Illiesia 6 (2): 11-15, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4759559
