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]
^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.
ISBN978-1-4613-5465-9.