Ameletus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Ephemeroptera
Subordo: Pisciformia
Superfamilia: Siphlonuroidea

Familia: Ameletidae
Genus: Ameletus
Species: A. aetherea – A. alexandrae – A. allengaensis – A. altaicus – A. amador – A. andersoni – A. atratus – A. bellulus – A. browni – A. camtschaticus – A. cedrensis – A. celer – A. cooki – A. costalis – A. cristatus – A. crocerus – A. cryptostimulus – A. daliensis – A. dissitus – A. doddsianus – A. dodecus – A. edmundsi – A. exquisitus – A. falsus – A. formosus – A. imbellis – A. inopinatus – A. janetae – A. kyotensis – A. lineatus – A. ludens – A. majusculus – A. minimus – A. montanus – A. montivagus – A. oregonensis – A. parvus – A. primitivus – A. pritchardi – A. procerus – A. quadratus – A. shepherdi – A. similior – A. sirotskii – A. sparsatus – A. subalpinus – A. subnotatus – A. suffusus – A. tarteri – A. tertius – A. tolae – A. validus – A. vancouvernensis – A. velox – A. vernalis – A. walleyi
Name

Ameletus Eaton, 1885

Type species: Ameletus submontanus Eaton, 1885
References

Template:Eaton, 1885
Additional references

Kang, S.C. & Yang, C.T. 1994: Three New Species of the Genus: Ameletus from Taiwan (Ephemeroptera: Siphlonuridae). Chinese Journal of Entomology 14:261-269. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Li, X-F., Luo, Y-P., Jiang, J., Wang, L-L. & Tong, X-L. 2021. Description of a new species of the genus Ameletus Eaton, 1885 (Ephemeroptera, Ameletidae) from Yunnan, China. Zookeys 1021: 37–51. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1021.59927 Open access Reference page.
Tiunova, T.M., Semenchenko, A.A. & Velyaev, O.A. 2017. New species of Ameletus Eaton, 1885 from the Russian Far East with notes on Ameletus camtschaticus Ulmer 1927 (Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae). Zootaxa 4276(2): 151–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.2.1. Reference page.
Zloty, J. 1996: A revision of the Nearctic Ameletus mayflies based on adult males, with descriptions of seven new species (Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae). The Canadian Entomologist 128: 293-346. full article (PDF). Reference page.

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

References

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.
Navás, R. P. Longinus (1915). "Neue Neuropteren. Erste Serie". Entomologische Mitteilungen. 4 (4/6): 149–150.
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" at the Encyclopedia of Life