Ephemeroptera: Baetidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoBaetis moffati Dodds 1923Common Names: Blue-winged Olive, BWO,Updated 3 June 2008
NotesThis species has been synonymized with Baetis tricaudatus.LinksOn this website:Introduction to Baetis Key to Baetis Nymphs Outside websites: ReferencesDodds,GS 1923 Mayflies from Colorado: descriptions of certain species and notes on others. Transactions of American Entomological Society 69, 93-116.Two of the species Dodds described in this paper have been lumped into Baetis tricaudatus. They are Baetis moffati and Baetis intermedius. McCafferty,WP; Durfee,RS; Kondratieff,BC 1993 Colorado mayflies (Ephemeroptera): an annotated inventory. Southwestern Naturalist 38 3, 252-274. Quote from page 256: "This species is known only from Colorado and has not been reconfirmed since 1935. This may be the result of of it not being known in the larval stage. However, there is some possibility that B. moffati and B. magnus are equivalent. The adults of both are essentially similar, but this is not enough evidence for proposing synonymy beacause the adults of all species of the rhodani group of Baetis, to which they belong are similar." They report this species from Gothic. Brown, Wendy S. 2006 Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA www.gunnisoninsects.org |