Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoAmeletus veloxDodds 1923Updated 25 July 2009
LinksOn this website:Ameletus Introduction Other Websites: Map - Kondratieff, Boris C. (coordinator). 2000. Mayflies of the United States. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. (Version 12DEC2003). http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/mfly/usa/28.htm ReferencesAllan, J.D. 1975a. The distributional ecology and diversity of benthic insects in Cement Creek, Colorado. Ecology 56:1040-1053. AbstractAllan,JD 1981 Determinants of diet of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in a mountain stream. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38, 184-192. Allen,RK; Chao,ESM 1981 Mayflies of the Southwest: new records and notes of Siphlonuridae (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 57, 449-456. Dodds,GS 1923 Mayflies from Colorado: descriptions of certain species and notes on others. Transactions of American Entomological Society 69, 93-116. Dodds first described A. velox in this paper. Quote from page 106: " Common in South Boulder Creek and its tributaries where the water is not very swift, between 5,500 and 11,000 feet. It also lives in lakes and ponds with clean bottoms. It is a very strong swimmer, being found in swifter waters than any other swimming form of this region." 
Dodds,GS; Hisaw,FL 1925 Ecological studies on aquatic insects. IV. Altitudinal range and zonation of mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies in the Colorado Rockies. Ecology 6(4)380-390. Abstract 
McCafferty,WP; Durfee,RS; Kondratieff,BC 1993 Colorado mayflies (Ephemeroptera): an annotated inventory. Southwestern Naturalist 38 3, 252-274. The Colorado State University Reference Collection (CSU) has specimens from Allan's 1975 study of Cement Creek in Gunnison County. Quote from page 254: "The species is evidently widespread throughout the west, and Allen and Chao (1981) redescribed the larvae from Arizona." Peckarsky,BL 1980 Influence of detritus on colonization of stream invertebrates. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37, 957-963. Zloty,J 1966 A revision of nearctic Ameletus mayflies based on adult males, with descriptions of seven new species (Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae). Canadian Entomologist 128, 293-346. Brown, Wendy S. 2004 Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA www.gunnisoninsects.org |