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Family BAETIDAE


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Ian Campbell, Chisolm Institute of Technology, Caufield East, Victoria, Australia

Introduction

The extremely widespread family Baetidae occurs on all continents and many islands, but is absent from New Zealand. Eight genera are recorded from Australia. Bungona Harker, Edmundsiops Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty and Offadens Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty are endemic while Cloeon Leach, Centroptilum Eaton and Baetis Leach are cosmopolitan and Pseudocloeon Klapálek is distributed throughout South-East Asia. Although the genus Baetis is still recognised Dean & Suter (1996) questioned its presence in Australia.

Baetids are probably the most poorly studied of the mayfly families worldwide and the Australian fauna is no exception. Undoubtedly there are several genera and many new species yet to be described from Australia (Suter 1997). Ecological studies are limited with life histories for a species of Cloeon (Marchant 1982) in the tropics and species of “Baetis” from temperate Australia (Suter & Bishop 1979; Marchant et al. 1984). Development is continuous in the tropics with development from eggs to adults as short as 1 month but in temperate streams the development ranges between 5–10 months.

(Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty 1998; Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty 1999; Lugo-Ortiz et al. 1999; Suter 2001; Suter & Pearson 2001).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
20-Jul-2023 EPHEMEROPTERA 30-Jul-2024 MODIFIED
16-Jun-2022 BAETIDAE 30-Jul-2024 MODIFIED
30-Jul-2024 MODIFIED