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Ephemeroptera: Baetidae of Gunnison County, Colorado

Baetis virilis (McDunnough) 1923

Small Minnow Mayflies, Blue-winged Olive

Notes

Name changed from Baetis virile to Baetis virilis by McCafferty (1997), then moved to the genus Plauditius by Lugo-Ortiz and McCafferty, (1998), see Plauditus virile.

References

Lugo-Ortiz,CR and McCafferty,WP 1998 A new North American genus of Baetidae (Ephemeroptera) and key to Baetis complex genera. Entomological News 109 (5) 345-353.

McCafferty,WP 1997 Name adjustments and a new synonym for North American Ephemeroptera species. Entomological News 108 (4)318, 320. PDF
     Baetis is treated as masculine, so the epithet in this combination should be virilis rather than virile

McCafferty,WP; Durfee,RS; Kondratieff,BC 1993 Colorado mayflies (Ephemeroptera): an annotated inventory. Southwestern Naturalist 38 3, 252-274. PDF
     Quote from page 256: "This report provides a considerable westward extension of the known range of this species, which is known from Quebec and Ontario and has not been generally reported in the literature since its description. While similar to Acentrella in that it lacks hingwings and has only two tails as a larvae, it is otherwise distinct. The single specimen at CSU agrees with the larval key description of Traver (1935). There remains, however, some possibility that it is either a color variant of B. punctiventris or that it is an undescribed species (see remarks under B. bicaudatus."

McDunnough,J 1923 New Canadian Ephemeridae with notes. Canadian Entomologist (55) 39-50.
     



Brown,WS 2004 Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
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