Ephemeroptera: Baetidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoBaetis notos Allen and Murvosh 1987Common Names:Small Minnow Mayflies, Blue-winged OliveUpdated 3 June 2008
DescriptionThese animals are 3-tailed, with a distinctive pattern of upside down dark U-shaped marks against a lighter background on the pronotum. The abdominal terga are dark with distinctive pale shapes.NotesThis is one of the fuscatus group of Baetis species.LinksOn this website:Introduction to Baetis 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/50.htm ReferencesAllen,RK; Murvosh,CM 1987 New Baetidae from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Ephemeroptera: Insecta), with notes. Canadian Entomologist 119, 1095-1099.Original description of this insect. Durfee, R and Kondratieff, BC 1995 Description of adults of Baetis notos (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) Entomological News 106 (2) 71-74. They describe males and females and have an illustration of the uniquely shaped hind wing as well as male genitalia. McCafferty,WP; Durfee,RS; Kondratieff,BC 1993 Colorado mayflies (Ephemeroptera): an annotated inventory. Southwestern Naturalist 38 3, 252-274. Quote from page 256: "This is a southwestern species that was described from larvae by Morihara and McCafferty (1979b) as Baetis sp. C. Allen and Murvosh (1987) subsequently named it B. notos." Morihara,DK; McCafferty,WP 1979 The Baetis larvae of North America (Ephemeroptera:Baetidae). Transactions of American Entomological Society 105, 139-221. Larvae are discussed as Baetis sp. C. Ward,JV; Stanford,JA 1990 Ephemeroptera of the Gunnison River, Colorado, USA. In: Mayflies and Stoneflies. Ed: Campbell,IC Kluwer Academic Publishers,215-220. Discussed as Baetis sp. C. Brown, Wendy S. 2004 Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA www.gunnisoninsects.org |