Troutnut Forum > Fly Hatch Talk > key of mayllies larvae
This topic is about the Mayfly Genus Ephemerella
Ephemerella used to be a "super-genus" containing a myriad of extremely important species, many of which are now spread out among other genera in the Ephemerellidae family. These include the Large Blue-Winged Olives of the Drunella genus and important species like Attenella attenuata, Dannella simplex, and Serratella deficiens. Despite these reclassifications, the Ephemerella genus still contains some of the most important species in North America.
There is a lot of variation between the species; read about each one for the details. Read more...
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The Discussion
| Alisadeq | May 14th, 2008, 7:51 am | |
| Posts: 1 | on the long time am looking for akey to mayflies (larvae) please if you have any information about this subject you can send it to me on my e.mail(sama_rania@yahoo.com) thank you | |
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| Taxon | May 14th, 2008, 11:24 am | |
| Mercer Island, WA Posts: 506 | Alisadeq- For what geographic location, North America, or somewhere else? For which taxonomic group, only Ephemerella, or all of Ephemeroptera? For what taxonomic levels, family, genus, or species? Taxonomic keys for mayfly larvae (nymphs) would differ significantly between continents, particularly below family level. For example, probably over 50% percent of the genera present on the European continent, are not present on the N. American continent, and vice versa. And, at the species level, there would be virtually no commonality. | |
| Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com | ||
| Troutnut | May 15th, 2008, 10:12 pm | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1122 | He sent me an email about this, too, and said he's looking for a key to the mayfly and stonefly nymphs of Iraq. I don't know any... does anyone here? | |
| Jason Neuswanger The Troutnut | ||
| Konchu | May 15th, 2008, 10:23 pm | |
| Indiana Posts: 212 | I'm not aware of a key, but there is a 20-yr old list of Ephemeroptera from Iraq. Al-Zubaidi F; Braasch D; Al-Kayatt A. 1987. Mayflies from Iraq (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). Faunistische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 14:179-184. A pdf-file is available from Michael Hubbard and his Florida A&M colleagues at the following URL. http://www.famu.org/mayfly/mfbib_a.php Some of the terminology and classification is out-of-date, but it at least is a start towards narrowing the list of possibilities. | |
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