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5/24/2018 | 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | CURRENT PROGRESS IN THE STUDY OF THE MAYFLY SPECIES (INSECTA: EPHEMEROPTERA) OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA | 420 B

CURRENT PROGRESS IN THE STUDY OF THE MAYFLY SPECIES (INSECTA: EPHEMEROPTERA) OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

Just under 800 species of mayflies are known from North and Central America and outlying areas of the Caribbean. About 80% of these species are represented in the Purdue University Entomological Research Collection. Current efforts funded by a National Science Foundation, Collections in Support of Biological Research grant to curate the collection are revealing new stage associations and new distribution records, some of which challenge current assumptions about phylogeny, geographic ranges, and basic identification. Parallel databases of collection data and published distribution & life history data are being built and compared to help recognize these new discoveries. Further efforts to maintain and expand the Mayfly Central website are progressing with the addition of a Caribbean species list and continual updates of the lists for North & Central American countries. A recent overview of the insect diversity of Canada has been influenced by this effort, as have revisionary studies of Neotropical taxa. The outcomes of our work highlight the importance of following through with specimen curation and data management after fieldwork is otherwise complete.

Distribution
Life History
Taxonomy

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Luke M. Jacobus (), Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Columbus, lmjacobu@iupuc.edu;