Baetis

This article is about the genus of insects. For the river previously known as "Baetis", see Guadalquivir.

Baetis
Baetis intercalaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Ephemeroptera
Family:	Baetidae
Genus:	Baetis Leach, 1815
Diversity
at least 150 species

Nymph

Male imago of Baetis tricaudatus

Baetis sahoensis

Baetis is a genus of mayflies of the family Baetidae, known as the blue-winged olive to anglers. There are at least 150 described species in Baetis. They are distributed worldwide, with the most variety in North America and northern Europe.

See also

• List of Baetis species

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 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. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_37.
• Barber-James, H.; Sartori, M.; Gattolliat, J-L.; Webb, J. (2013). "World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species". The Catalogue of Life Partnership. doi:10.15468/wrzznv. Retrieved 2018-04-28. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Campbell, Ian C., ed. (1990). Mayflies and stoneflies: Life histories and biology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2397-3. ISBN 978-94-010-7579-4. S2CID 39201439.
• Edmunds Jr., George F. (1972). "Biogeography and evolution of Ephemeroptera". Annual Review of Entomology. Annual Reviews. 17 (1): 21–42. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.17.010172.000321.
• Kluge, Nikita (2013). The phylogenetic system of Ephemeroptera. Springer Science & Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0872-3. ISBN 978-94-015-3942-5. S2CID 39671739.
• Novikova, E.A.; Kluge, N. Yu. (1987). "Systematics of the Genus Baetis (Ephemeroptera, Baetinae) with Description of a New Species from Middle Asia". Vestnik Zoologii. 1987 (4): 8–19. ISSN 0084-5604.
• Walsh, Benjamin D. (1862). "List of the Pseudoneuroptera of Illinois contained in the Cabinet of the writer, with descriptions of over forty new species, and notes on their structural affinities". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14 (7–9): 361–402.

External links

• Media related to Baetis at Wikimedia Commons