224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS A CHECKLIST OF THE STONEFLIES (PLECOPTERA) OF THE DANIEL BOONE NATIONAL FOREST IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A. 1 Donald C. Tarter 2 and Dwight L. Chaffee' ABSTRACT: A total of 69 species representing nine families and 30 genera of stoneflies are found in the Daniel Boone National Forest in eastern Kentucky. Two hundred and fifty-five new county records were identified from 163 streams in 21 counties. Three new state records, including Pteronarcys biloba Newman, Paracapnia angulata Hanson, and Perlesta decipiens (Walsh), and Isoperla orata Prison, were identified from the study area. KEY WORDS: Plecoptera, stoneflies, Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky, U.S.A. The Daniel Boone National Forest was established as the Cumberland Na-tional Forest on February 23, 1937. The name was officially changed on April 11, 1966, to honor the great Kentucky Pioneer, Daniel Boone (Collins, 1975). Previ-ously, aspects of the stonefly fauna of the Daniel Boone National Forest in east-ern Kentucky have been recorded by Picazo and DeMoss (1980), Tarter et al. (1982,1984), Allen and Tarter (1985), Surdick (1985), Kondratieff and Kirchner ( 1 988, 1 996), and Pond ( 1 999). The checklist presented herein represents the first attempt to list the stoneflies (nymphs and adults) found in the streams located in 2 1 counties within the Daniel Boone National Forest. The list indicates nine fam-ilies, 30 genera, and 69 species. Additionally, 255 new county records were add-ed to the study area. Of the known stonefly species in Kentucky (91), 76 percent were found in the Daniel Boone National Forest. The Daniel Boone National Forest is located in the Cumberland Plateau and Cumberland Mountain region of eastern Kentucky and encompasses approxi-mately 849,870 hectares within its proclamation boundary (Fig. 1). The land is rugged and characterized by steep forested ridges, narrow valleys, and contains approximately 1 1,900 km of perennial streams and rivers. Collections for this in-vestigation were made from 163 streams. They were taken mostly from stream orders 1-3, and many collections were taken from very small unnamed branches and tributaries. Stoneflies and detailed data (streams, collection dates, collector) were deposited in the West Virginia Benthological Survey at Marshall Univer-sity. The following counties (21) have land areas that are contained within the proclamation boundary of the Daniel Boone National Forest: Bath, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, McCreary, Menifee, Morgan, Ows-ley, Perry, Powell, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Rowan, Wayne, Whitley, and Wolfe. 1 Received on December 6, 2002. Accepted on April 10, 2004. 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25755, U.S.A. E-mail:
[email protected] ' Forest Biology Consultant, P.O. Box XI 4, Richmond, Kentucky 40476 U.S.A. Mailed on Auuust 25, 2004
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