List of mayflies of the British Isles explained

This list of the mayflies recorded in the British Isles follows Macadam,^[1] with nomenclature and taxonomy according to Kluge.^[2] There are 51 species of mayfly known to occur in the British Isles, distributed among ten families.

Ameletidae

• Ameletus inopinatus Eaton, 1887

Arthropleidae

• Arthroplea congener Bengtsson, 1908

Baetidae

• Alainites muticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Baetis buceratus Eaton, 1870
• Baetis fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Baetis rhodani (Pictet, 1843)
• Baetis scambus Eaton, 1870
• Baetis vernus Curtis, 1834
• Centroptilum luteolum (Muller, 1776)
• Cloeon dipterum (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Cloeon simile Eaton, 1870
• Labiobaetis atrebatinus (Eaton, 1870)
• Nigrobaetis digitatus (Bengtsson, 1919)
• Nigrobaetis niger (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Procloeon bifidum (Bengtsson, 1912)
• Procloeon pennulatum (Eaton, 1870)

Caenidae

• Brachycercus harrisella Curtis, 1834
• Caenis beskidensis Sowa, 1973
• Caenis horaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Caenis luctuosa (Burmeister, 1839)
• Caenis macrura Stephens, 1835
• Caenis pseudorivulorum Keffermüller, 1960
• Caenis pusilla Navás, 1913
• Caenis rivulorum Eaton, 1884
• Caenis robusta Eaton, 1884

Ephemeridae

• Ephemera danica Müller, 1764
• Ephemera lineata Eaton, 1870
• Ephemera vulgata Linnaeus, 1758

Ephemerellidae

• Seratella ignita (Poda, 1761)
• Ephemerella notata Eaton, 1887

Heptageniidae

• Ecdyonurus dispar (Curtis, 1834)
• Ecdyonurus insignis (Eaton, 1870)
• Ecdyonurus torrentis Kimmins, 1942
• Ecdyonurus venosus (Fabricius, 1775)
• Electrogena affinis (Eaton, 1870)
• Electrogena lateralis (Curtis, 1834)
• Heptagenia longicauda (Stephens, 1835)
• Heptagenia sulphurea (Müller, 1764)
• Kageronia fuscogrisea (Retzius, 1783)
• Rhithrogena germanica Eaton, 1870
• Rhithrogena semicolorata (Curtis, 1834)

Leptophlebiidae

• Habrophlebia fusca (Curtis, 1834)
• Leptophlebia marginata (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Leptophlebia vespertina (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Paraleptophlebia cincta (Retzius, 1783)
• Paraleptophlebia submarginata (Stephens, 1835)
• Paraleptophlebia werneri Ulmer, 1920

Potamanthidae

• Potamanthus luteus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Siphlonuridae

• Siphlonurus alternatus (Say, 1824)
• Siphlonurus armatus Eaton, 1870
• Siphlonurus lacustris Eaton, 1870

Notes and References

1. Craig Macadam . 2003 . Salmo Trutta . 6 . 64–67 . In the Month of Mayfly . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727220718/http://www.riverflies.org/index/riverflies/ephemeroptera/contentParagraph/05/document/In_The_Month_of_Mayfly.pdf . 2011-07-27 .
2. Web site: Index of supra-species taxa names . Ephemeroptera of the World . June 3, 2010 . June 11, 2010 . Nikita Julievich Kluge . . https://web.archive.org/web/20100429175542/http://www.insecta.bio.pu.ru/z/Eph-spp/ind-genn.htm . April 29, 2010 . dead .