Ephemeroptera: Baetidae of Gunnison County, ColoradoFallceon quilleri - Small Minnow Mayfly(Dodds 1923)Updated 20 Feb 2015
TSN 568601 NotesRare.Good LinksOn this website:Introduction to Baetidae Other Websites: Photos, Map, Museum specimens, DNA - Barcodinglife.org ReferencesDodds,GS 1923 Mayflies from Colorado: descriptions of certain species and notes on others. Transactions of American Entomological Society 69, 93-116. PDFDescribed from South Boulder Creek on the Front Range of Colorado as Baetis quilleri. Gray,LJ 1981 Species composition and life histories of aquatic insects in a lowland Sonoran desert stream. American Midland Naturalist 106 (2) 229-242. Discussed as Baetis quilleri. Quote from page 231: "Baetis quilleri eggs, obtained from reared adults, hatched in 1 or 2 days. Subimagos emerged in 9-11 days. Larvae with fully developed wing pads were present after 6 days at 17-25 C in trays. " Gill,BA; Harrington,RA; Kondratieff,BC; Zamudio,KR; Poff,NL and Funk,WC 2014 Morphological taxonomy, DNA barcoding, and species diversity in southern Rocky Mountain headwater streams. Freshwater Science 33(1) 288-301. PDF Working in wadeable streams on the Front Range of Colorado, they found this species and two cryptic Fallceon species. Lugo-Ortiz,CR; McCafferty,WP 1998 A new North American genus of Baetidae (Ephemeroptera) and key to Baetis complex genera. Entomological News 109 5, 345-353. Page 351, Figure 14 is an illustration of the left mandible of F. quilleri, showing the setal tuft. Lugo-Ortiz,CR; McCafferty,WP and Waltz,RD 1994 Contribution to the taxonomy of the Panamerican genus Fallceon (Ephemeroptera:Baetidae) Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 102:460-475. McCafferty,WP and Lugo-Ortiz,CR 1994 Taxonomic status of three species of Fallceon (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae). Entomological News 105(3):161-163. PDF McCafferty,WP and Provonsha, AV The Mayflies of North America Species List (Version 8Feb2011) Here is the geographic range and synonyms:
Fallceon quilleri (Dodds), 1923 [CAN:NE,NW;MEX:FS,SW;USA:NE,NW,SE,SW]
* Baetis buenoi Allen, 1985 (syn.)
* Baetis byblis Allen & Murvosh, 1983 (syn.)
* Baetis cleptis Burks, 1953 (syn.)
* Baetis endymion Traver, 1935 (syn.)
* Baetis erebus Traver, 1935 (syn.)
* Baetis leechi Day, 1954 (syn.)
* Baetis quilleri Dodds, 1923 (orig.)
* Fallceon buenoi (Allen), 1985 (syn.)
* Fallceon byblis (Allen & Murvosh), 1983 (syn.)
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