Ameletus is a genus of mayfly and the type genus of the family Ameletidae.
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| Ameletus cryptostimulus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Ephemeroptera |
| Family: | Ameletidae |
| Genus: | Ameletus Eaton, 1865[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ameletus subnotatus Eaton, 1885
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Taxonomic history
editAmeletus 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
editAmeletus species include:[8]
- A. amador Mayo, 1939
- A. andersoni Zloty, 1996
- A. bellulus Zloty, 1996
- A. browni McDunnough, 1933
- A. celer McDunnough, 1934
- A. cooki McDunnough, 1929
- A. cryptostimulus Carle, 1978
- A. dissitus Eaton, 1885
- A. doddsianus Zloty, 1996
- A. edmundsi Zloty, 1996
- A. exquisitus Eaton, 1885
- A. falsus McDunnough, 1938
- A. imbellis Day, 1952
- A. inopinatus Eaton, 1887
- A. lineatus Traver, 1932
- A. ludens Needham, 1905
- A. majusculus Zloty, 1996
- A. minimus Zloty & Harper, 1999
- A. oregonensis McDunnough, 1933
- A. oregonensis Zloty, 1996
- A. quadratus Zloty & Harper, 1999
- A. shepherdi Traver, 1934
- A. similior McDunnough, 1928
- A. sparsatus McDunnough, 1931
- A. subnotatus Eaton, 1885
- A. suffusus McDunnough, 1936
- A. tarteri Burrows, 1987
- A. tertius McDunnough, 1938
- A. tolae Zloty, 1996
- A. validus McDunnough, 1923
- A. vancouverensis McDunnough, 1933
- A. velox Dodds, 1923
- A. vernalis McDunnough, 1924
- A. walleyi Harper, 1970
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Edmunds, George F. Jr. (1960). "Two Generic Synonyms in the Siphlonuridae (Ephemeroptera)". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 55 (1): 24.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Ameletus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
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