Shadowed Burrowing Mayfly

Ephemera simulans

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
Common Name: 
Shadowed Burrowing Mayfly
Scientific Name: 
Ephemera simulans
Naming References: 
A359
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Mayfly
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Arthropoda
Class: 
Insecta
Order: 
Ephemeroptera
Family: 
Ephemeridae
Distribution

Number of Occurrences

Insufficient survey effort. Data: Rawson 1953 (recorded from Great Slave Lake :Nymphs of these species, identified by Dr. F. P. Ide, University of Toronto, were common in depths down to four metres in Yellowknife Bay and at Brabant Island, near the outlet of the lake: A238); Cobb & Flannagan 1980 (recorded from the Mackenzie River drainage)
References: 
H285
R238
A348
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Undetermined
Status Rank Description: 
Synonyms = E. decora, E. natata, Palingenia natata (ITIS) ;; General Status rank in 2013 (by Colin Curry) = 5 = undetermined ;; Ref = Cobb, D.G. & Flannagan, J.F. 1980 The distribution of Ephemeroptera in northern Canada in Flannagan, J.F. & K.E. Marshal; relatively common in Southern Mackenzie tributaries (Giberson 2017)
S Rank: 
SU
Decision Process Description: 
Draft ranks by Colin Curry for the National General Status Ranking Program (2013)
Last Updated: 
May 11, 2017

References

Naming

  • McCafferty, W.P., and R.P. Randolph (1998) Canada mayflies: a faunistic compendium. Proc. Of the Ent. Soc. Of Ontario 129: 47-97 - A359 Return

Number of Occurrences

  • Curry, Colin (2014) Two e-mails from R Hebert to S Carriere: GS EPTM NT and GS mayflies stoneflies caddisflies scorpionflies - Éphémères plécoptères trichoptères mécoptères SG:. received 13/05/2014: Curry, Colin mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies e-copy - H285 Return
  • Cobb, D.G. & Flannagan, J.F. (1980) The distribution of Ephemeroptera in northern Canada in Flannagan, J.F. & K.E. Marshall, eds.. Plenum Press New York Advances in Ephemeroptera Biology 155-166 - R238 Return
  • Rawson, D.S. (1953) The bottom fauna of Great Slave Lake. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 10(8):486-520 - A348 Return