Ameletus

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Ameletus
Ameletus cryptostimulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Family: Ameletidae
Genus: Ameletus
Eaton, 1865[1]
Type species
Ameletus subnotatus
Eaton, 1885
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Chimura Navás, 1915
  • Paleoameletus Lestage, 1940

Ameletus is a genus of mayfly and the type genus of the family Ameletidae.

Taxonomic history[edit]

Ameletus was circumscribed by Rev. A. E. Eaton in 1885. His initial circumscription included three species, all of which were described in the same paper: the type species A. dissitus, A. subnotatus, and A. exquisitus.[1]

R. P. Longinus Navás circumscribed the genus Chimura in 1915. It only consisted of its type species, the newly described C. aetherea.[4] In 1960, Edmunds synonymized Chimura with Ameletus.[5]

Paleoameletus was circumscribed by J. A. Lestage in 1940; he created it for the species A. primitivus which J. R. Traver had described the previous year.[6] George F. Edmunds, Jr., and Jay R. Traver synonymized Paleoameletus with Ameletus in 1954.[7]

Species[edit]

Ameletus species include:[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Eaton, A. E. (1885). "A Revisional Monograph of Recent Ephemeridae or Mayflies. Part III". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second Series—Zoology. 3 (3): 210–230. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1883.tb01550c.x.
  2. ^ Godunko, Roman J.; Neumann, Christian (2006). "Fossil Mayfly Collections of the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt University Berlin. I. Electroletus soldani gen. and sp. nov. (Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae) from the Eocene Baltic Amber" (PDF). Annales Zoologici. 56 (1): 175.
  3. ^ Bauernfeind, Ernst; Soldan, Tomáš (2012). "Ameletidae McCafferty, 1991". The Mayflies of Europe (Ephemeroptera). Ollerup: Apollo Books. pp. 57–60. doi:10.1163/9789004260887. ISBN 978-87-88757-45-3.
  4. ^ Navás, R. P. Longinus (1915). "Neue Neuropteren. Erste Serie". Entomologische Mitteilungen. 4 (4/6): 149–150.
  5. ^ Edmunds, George F. Jr. (1960). "Two Generic Synonyms in the Siphlonuridae (Ephemeroptera)". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 55 (1): 24.
  6. ^ Zloty, Jacek (2001). "Description of the Male Imago of Ameletus primitivus Traver (Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae) with Notes on Its Relationship with Other Ameletus Species". In Domínguez, Eduardo (ed.). Trends in Research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. Boston: Springer. pp. 365–368. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-1257-8_42. ISBN 978-1-4613-5465-9.
  7. ^ Edmunds, George F. Jr.; Traver, Jay R. (1954). "An Outline of a Reclassification of the Ephemeroptera". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 56 (5): 237.
  8. ^ "Ameletus" at the Encyclopedia of Life