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THE LIFE HISTORY AND HABITS OF A MAYFLY FROM UTAH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

James G. Needham
Affiliation:
Cornell Univ. Ithaca, N. Y.

Extract

While collecting at Birch Glen in Logan Canon, Utah, on June 18th, 1926, I first came upon the nymph of the mayfly (Rhithrogena mimus Eat.) that is the subject of this article. I was gathering aquatic insects from among the larger stones in a swift portion of the river. Dipterous larvae of Simulium and Bibiocephala were common, and the nymphs of the big mayfly Ephemerella doddsi (locally called the “ginger quill”) were appearing on my hand screen, when along with them appeared a few peculiar mayfly nymphs with broadly expanded gills of a bright rose-red color. I quickly got some of them into a rearing cage and in a few days had sub-imagos, and later adult reared specimens, of the species described below.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1927

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References

* —The position of a pair shown for Chloeon diplerum in Bernhard's figure 1 on page 468 of Biologisches Centralblatt for 1907 (Vol.27) with the male inverted in position seems quite impossible; for in that position hisforceps would clasp the abdomen of the female in front of the genital opening, compressing the oviducts and preventing ingress of the sperm mass. This figure is copied by Ulmerin Schultz's Biologic der Thiere Deutschlands Part 34, p. 9.