"New" vs "old" mayfly classifications
Does anyone know if there exists a list (or chart) somewhere online which lists the mayfly commom names, "old" (pre-DNA classification) AND "new" scientific (taxonomic) names?
I have googled this, but have not located anything which contains all 3 items. For example: Blue-Winged Olive Dun (eastern), old name was Ephemerella cornuta, now Drunella Cornuta...
For a real challenge, try ice fishing with dry flies.
Correction: Drunella Cornutella...
For a real challenge, try ice fishing with dry flies.
Plenty of Latin spoken here:
http://www.insecta.bio.pu.ru/z/Eph-spp/spp-a.htm
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Scott
Not sure of anything of the sort, but if you find something, please share and share alike.
Don Rolfson
You could probably start here http://www.troutnut.com/common-names/only-mayflies and obtain the information, but I think you will have to do a lot of cutting and pasting and make your own chart. A variety of common names are also provided, so that may help in the long run.
Just to muddy the waters a bit more, E. Cornuta, in my experience, is/was called "Slate Winged Olive". Eastern BWO's are/were several species of Baetis and Psuedocleon.
You might try this site. : http://www.flyfishingentomology.com/index.html. I'm doing a macroinvertabrate study & find it helpful...
& this part of it. : http://www.flyfishingentomology.com/...cs_Display.php or http://www.flyfishingentomology.com/Names Query (Either).asp
or: http://www.epa.gov/bioiweb1/pdf/EPA-...ertebrates.pdf
Last edited by FISHN50; 05-16-2012 at 12:10 PM.
Many Thanks to all for your help. I will try to find some time to generate a cross-referenced list for my local eastern species (NJ). I am trying to avoid some confusion, with the new species names vs the ones in my older books ("Hatches", "Nymphs", etc.), which I still frequently reference. If/when I get the list done. will gladly share it here.
For a real challenge, try ice fishing with dry flies.
Hey Jimbob
Where do you fish, I'm doing my stream macro invertebrate study on the Musky....
You folks are making this harder than it has to be. A rose by any other name is still a rose.
For what it is worth, a trout can be caught on Lumbricus terrestris anywhere.
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