Mayfly (Ephemeroptera) Provisional Species List for Gunnison County, Colorado

Under Construction! Updated 26 Aug 2008

Baetis larvae posing in a petri dish filled with water.

Checklists for North America or the Nearctic. Also try Mayfly Central from the Department of Entomology at Purdue University.

Ameletidae
Baetidae Introduction
Caenidae
- Caenis amica
Ephemerellidae Introduction
Leptohyphidae
- Tricorythodes minutes
Heptageniidae Introduction
Leptophlebiidae Introduction
Siphlonuridae
- Siphlonurus occidentalis
Species that may be found based on literature reviews and collections.
- Ameletus subnotatus (maybe not?)
- Pseudocloeon propinquum, was Baetis propinquus "may prove to be widespread in Colorado"
- Baetis punctiventris
- Choroterpes, nymphs were found in Tomichi Creek, need adults.
- Cinygmula par possibly at high altitudes
- Ecdyonurus simplicioides, was Nixe simplicioides below 7000', found in Tomichi Creek in Saguache county
- Parameletus at high elevations?
- Procloeon

Sources

Allan, J.D. 1975 Faunal replacement: altitudinal zonation in an alpine stream. Verhandlungen der Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 19:1015-1022.
A longitudinal survey of Cement Creek, a tributary of the East River in the early 1970s.

McCafferty, W.P., Richard S Durfee and Boris C. Kondratieff 1993 Colorado Mayflies (Ephemeroptera): An annotated inventory. Southwestern Naturalist 38(3):252-274

NAWQA = USGS National Water Quality Assessment Data Warehouse http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/servlet/page?_pageid=543&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30 Data as of 1Sep2005

Peckarsky, BL Dodson,SI, Conklin, DJ 1985 A key to the aquatic insects of streams in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, including chironomid larvae from streams and ponds. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver CO. 47 pages.

You may use the Integrated Taxonomic Information System http://www.itis.gov/ to check species names.

Brown, Wendy S. 2005 Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA

Ephemeroptera (Mayfly) Species List for Gunnison County, Colorado

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