Baetiscidae Explained

Baetiscidae is a family of mayflies. It contains a single extant genus, Baetisca, native to North America with around 12 species. The family is noted for their spined armoured larvae, which live in flowing water pools and on the edges of streams where they are detritivores, consuming fine particles of organic matter. Three other extinct genera are known, extending back to the Early Cretaceous. They are closely related to Prosopistomatidae which have unusual, beetle-like nymphs as well as the extinct genus Cretomitarcys, with the three groups constituting the clade Carapacea.^[1]

Genera

These three genera belong to the family Baetiscidae:

• Baetisca Walsh, 1862

^{i c g b}

• †Balticobaetisca Staniczek & Bechly, 2002

^g Baltic amber, Eocene

• †Protobaetisca Staniczek 2007 Crato Formation, Brazil, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• †Koonwarrabaetisca Koonwarra Fossil Bed, Australia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian).^[2]

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Book: Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. 2000. American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. 2nd. 0-8493-0212-9.
• Barber-James . Helen M.. Gattolliat . Jean-Luc. Sartori . Michel. Hubbard . Michael D.. 2008. Global diversity of mayflies (Ephemeroptera, Insecta) in freshwater. Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment. Springer. 595. 1. 339–350. 10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_37.
• Web site: 2018-05-05. Barber-James . H.. Sartori . M.. Gattolliat . J-L.. Webb . J.. 2013. World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species.
• Book: Borror. Donald J.. Peterson. Roger Tory. White. Richard E.. 1998. A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin. 978-0395911709. registration.
• Book: Campbell . Ian C.. 1990. Mayflies and stoneflies: Life histories and biology. Springer. 978-94-010-7579-4. 10.1007/978-94-009-2397-3. 39201439.
• Edmunds Jr. . George F.. 1972. Biogeography and evolution of Ephemeroptera. Annual Review of Entomology. Annual Reviews. 17. 1. 21–42. 10.1146/annurev.en.17.010172.000321.
• Book: Gillott. Cedric. 1980. Entomology. Plenum Press. 0-306-40366-8. registration.
• Book: Kellogg . Vernon L.. 1905. American insects. H. Holt.
• Book: Kluge . Nikita. 2013. The phylogenetic system of Ephemeroptera. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-94-015-3942-5. 10.1007/978-94-007-0872-3. 39671739.
• Majka . C.. 2009. Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island. ZooKeys. 22. 10.3897/zookeys.22.93. free . 267–283.
• Misof . B.. Liu . S.. Meusemann . K.. Peters . R.S.. Donath . A.. 4. 2014. Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution. Science. 346. 6210. 763. 10.1126/science.1257570 . 25378627. 36008925.

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Notes and References

1. Staniczek . Arnold H. . Storari . Arianny P. . Godunko . Roman J. . 2022-08-17 . Revised systematics, phylogeny, and paleontology of the mayfly family Baetiscidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) . Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny . 80 . 389–409 . 10.3897/asp.80.e82845 . 1864-8312. free .
2. Godunko . Roman J. . Sroka . Pavel . 2024-01-18 . A new mayfly subfamily sheds light on the early evolution and Pangean origin of Baetiscidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) . Scientific Reports . en . 14 . 1 . 10.1038/s41598-024-51176-7 . 2045-2322 . 10796926 . 38238366.