Updated species list of stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Mongolia

Abstract

In Mongolia there are 53 stonefly species and subspecies recorded belonging to 27 genera in eight families. The updated species list also accounts for recent nomenclatural changes, and the distributions of species over the major mountainous regions of Mongolia are presented.

Keywords:

• stoneflies
• Plecoptera
• species list
• distribution
• Mongolia

Acknowledgements

I would like to sincerely thank several colleagues (in alphabetical order) who helped me in various ways during this study: B. Bayartogtokh and R. Samiya, E. Zoljargal (Ulaanbaatar), A. Kessler (Arizona), R. Nelson (Provo), I. Sivec (Ljubljana), A. Staniczek (Stuttgart), V. Teslenko (Vladivostok), P. Zwick (Schlitz). I sincerely thank D. Borchardt (Magdeburg) and R. Ibisch (Kassel) for providing the opportunity to work in the IWRM-MoMo project in Mongolia which was carried out with financial support of the project “Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia: Model region Mongolia” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (FKZ 0330762A).