Baetis notos (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) of Gunnison County, Colorado

Ephemeroptera: Baetidae of Gunnison County, Colorado

Baetis notos Allen and Murvosh 1987

Common Names:Small Minnow Mayflies, Blue-winged Olive

Updated 3 June 2008

Description

These animals are 3-tailed, with a distinctive pattern of upside down dark U-shaped marks against a lighter background on the pronotum. The abdominal terga are dark with distinctive pale shapes.

Notes

This is one of the fuscatus group of Baetis species.

Good Links

On this website:
Introduction to Baetis

Other Websites:
Map - Kondratieff, Boris C. (coordinator). 2000. Mayflies of the United States. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. (Version 12DEC2003). http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/mfly/usa/50.htm

References

Allen,RK; Murvosh,CM 1987 New Baetidae from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Ephemeroptera: Insecta), with notes. Canadian Entomologist 119, 1095-1099.
     Original description of this insect.

Durfee, R and Kondratieff, BC 1995 Description of adults of Baetis notos (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) Entomological News 106 (2) 71-74.
     They describe males and females and have an illustration of the uniquely shaped hind wing as well as male genitalia.

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 is a southwestern species that was described from larvae by Morihara and McCafferty (1979b) as Baetis sp. C. Allen and Murvosh (1987) subsequently named it B. notos."

McCafferty,WP and Provonsha, AV The Mayflies of North America Species List http://www.entm.purdue.edu/entomology/research/mayfly/species.html (Version 12Jan2009)
     Here is the geographic range and synonyms:

Baetis notos Allen & Murvosh, 1987 [MEX:FS;USA:NW,SE,SW]
    * Baetis sp. C Morihara & McCafferty, 1979 (syn.)

Morihara,DK; McCafferty,WP 1979 The Baetis larvae of North America (Ephemeroptera:Baetidae). Transactions of American Entomological Society 105, 139-221.
Larvae are discussed as Baetis sp. C.

Ward,JV; Stanford,JA 1990 Ephemeroptera of the Gunnison River, Colorado, USA. In: Mayflies and Stoneflies. Ed: Campbell,IC Kluwer Academic Publishers,215-220.
Discussed as Baetis sp. C.

Brown, Wendy S. 2004 Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
www.gunnisoninsects.org