ephemeroptera families Flashcards
fusiform forelegs with rows of long setae on inner surface lotic-erosional swimmers, clingers collectors-filterers, predators
Isonychiidae
fusiform
forelegs with rows of long setae on inner surface
gills of abdominal segment I ventral, all gills simple
Lotic-erosional, lotic-depositional
clingers, burrowers, collectors-filterers
Oligoneuriidae
flattened claws at least as long as tarsi tibiae and tarsi bowed lotic-depositional (large rivers on sand) sprawlers predators
Pseudironidae
Flattened
Maxillary palpi very long, fringed with long hair
gill lamellae pointed without fibrilliform part
lentic-littoral, lotic-depositional
swimmers, clingers
collectors-filterers
Arthropleidae
flattened head so flat you can see "cheeks" beside eyes in dorsal view tibiae and tarsi straight claws shorter than tarsi lotic-erosional, lentic-erosional clingers scrapers, collectors-gatherers
Heptageniidae
fusiform foretarsal claws bifid midtarsal and hind tarsal claws more than 1/2 as long as tibiae lotic-erosional swimmers, clingers predators, collectors-gatherers
Metretopodidae
fusiform antennae less than 2x width of head maxillae without pectinate spines lentic swimmers, climbers collectors-gatherers
Siphlonuridae
fusiform antennae 2-3x width of head or body pale with some dark abdominal segments lotic-erosional, lotic-depositional swimmers, clingers collectors-gatherers, scrapers
Baetidae
fusiform foretarsal claws with long slender denticles forecoxae each with spinous pad lotic-erosional, lotic-depositonal burrowers collectors-filterers
Ametropodidae
Fusiform Antennae less than 2x width of head maxillae with pectinate spines lotic-erosional, lotic-depositonal swimmers, clingers scrapers, collectors-gatherers
Ameletidae
fusiform tibia and tarsi bowed claws long lotic-depositional (large rivers) swimmers, clingers predators
Acanthometropodidae
pads of long spines on head and prothorax
lotic-depositional
burrower
predators
Behningiidae
fusiform gills of abdominal segment II operculate, fused medially mesonotum with lobes lotic-depositional sprawlers, clingers collector-gatherers
Neoephemeridae
fusiform
gills on abdominal segment II operculate, meeting medially but not fused
lotic-depositional, lentic-littoral
sprawlers
collectors-gatherers, collectors-filterers, scrapers
Caenidae
fusiform gills of abdomnial segment II operculate, not meeting medially lotic-depositional, lentic-littoral clingers, sprawlers collectors-gatherers
Leptohyphidae