All About Stoneflies with Anna Eichert

Written By New Species
Anna tilts her face towards the camera to display a stonefly perched on her temple. She is, a young white woman with blonde hair and a blue bandana. The stonefly is several inches long with a brownish-red body and brown wings.

Stoneflies, or Plecoptera, are an order of insects with around 4,000 species. But that’s about to change. In her paper “Stonefly systematics: past, present, and future,” Anna Eichert and her colleagues from around the world map out the way stoneflies have changed as a group over time, some of the factors that shape our current understanding of stoneflies, and what can change in the future to make sure our knowledge of stonefly diversity continues to grow. Learn from Anna’s account of her experiences and her passion for stoneflies in this episode, and next time you encounter a stream, flip over a rock or two.

Anna Eichert’s paper “Stonefly systematics: past, present, and future” is in volume 9, issue 4 of Insect Systematics and Diversity.

It can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixaf026

A transcript of this episode can be found here: Anna Eichert - Transcript

Episode image credit: Anna Eichert

Email Anna: aeichert@amnh.org

Follow Anna on Instagram: @annaeichert, @bugtimez

And Bluesky: @annaeichert.bsky.social‬

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