Ephemeroptera: Caenidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoCaenis amica Hagen 1861Small Squaregill MayflyUpdated 19 Nov 2008
LinksOther 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/152.htm ReferencesEdmunds Jr, GF. 1995 Habitat differences between northern and southern populations of mayflies of the western United States. Pages 171-176 in Corkum LD; Ciborowski JJH. Current Directions in Research on Ephemeroptera. Canadian Scholars' Press, Inc. Toronto.Hagen,HA 1861 Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America with a list of South American species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 4, 1-344. Hagen described Caenis amica for the first time in this publication. Hagen's Glossary (pdf) 
McCafferty,WP; Durfee,RS; Kondratieff,BC 1993 Colorado mayflies (Ephemeroptera): an annotated inventory. Southwestern Naturalist 38 3, 252-274. Quote from page 268 "Colorado is one of the few areas in North America from which this ubiquitous species had been previously unreported (Provonsha, 1990)." The authors also mention at the end of their discussion of Faunisitics that C. amicus is one of "those mayfly species that are truly widespread in North America" McDunnough,J 1931 New species of North American Ephemeroptera. Canadian Entomologist 63, 82-93. Discussed as Caenis simulans Provonsha,AV 1990 A revision of the genus Caenis in North America (Ephemeroptera: Caenidae). Transactions of American Entomological Society 116, 801-884. Wang T-Q; McCafferty WP; Bae YJ. 1997. Sister relationship of the Neoephemeridae and Caenidae (Ephemeroptera: Pannota). Entomological News 108:52-56. |