Ameletus
Genus of mayflies
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Ameletus is a genus of mayfly and the type genus of the family Ameletidae.
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| Ameletus | |
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| Ameletus cryptostimulus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Ephemeroptera |
| Family: | Ameletidae |
| Genus: | Ameletus Eaton, 1865[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ameletus subnotatus Eaton, 1885 | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Taxonomic history
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
Ameletus 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
