PETER LANDOLT AND MICHEL SARTORI EDITORS

EPHEMEROPTERA &

BIOLOGY-ECOLOGY-SYSTEMATICS

, SWITZERLAND \ LAUSANNE - \AFRIBOURG

MTL - MAURON + TINGUELY & LACHAT SA FRIBOURG / SWITZERLAND

1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents V Preface IX Appreciation from the Editors XI

DEDICATORY ADDRESS

NINAD. SINICHENKOVA -In memory of Olga Alexandrovna Tshernova (1901 -1995) 3

MICHEL SARTORI - Obituary to Jacques Aubert (1916-1995) 7

LIFE HISTORIES AND BEHAVIOUR

PETER LANDOLT, MICHEL SARTORI & DENISE STUDEMANN - Palingenia longicauda (Ephemeroptera, Palingeniidae): from mating to the larvulae stage 15 TOHRU KISHIMOTO - Comparison of embryonic development among some arctoperlarian species 21 NAOSHI C. WATANABE & KAZUMI AOE - Change in the effect of temperature on egg hatching of Potamanthus formosus during a long emergence period (Ephemeroptera: ) 26 JOHN E. BRITTAIN - Egg development in Thaumatoperla, an endangered stonefly , endemic to the Australian Alps (Plecoptera: ) 30 ANDREAS FRUTIGER & ALEX IMHOF - Life cycle of Dinocras cephalotes and Perla grandis (Plecoptera: Perlidae)"in different temperature regimes 34 TRUMAN SHERK & GREG RAU - Emergence of Ephemeroptera from Findley Lake in the coniferous forest of the Cascade Mountains, USA 44 YUKA HAYASHI, YU ISOBE & TADASHI OISHI - Diel periodicity of emergence of Sweltsa sp. (Plecoptera; Chloroperlidae) 52 PILAR RIANO, ANA BASAGUREN & JESUS POZO - Diet variations of Ephemerella ignita (PODA) (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) in relation to the development stage 60 TATIANA M. TIUNOVA - Growth of rheophilic larvae (Ephemeroptera) 65 VALENTINA A. TESLENKO - Feeding habits of the predaceous stoneflies in a salmon stream of the Russian Far East 73 PILAR RIANO, ANA BASAGUREN & JESUS POZO - The life history and food habits of Siphonoperla tor- rentium (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) in Northern Spain 79 ADAM GLAZACZOW - Observations on the psammophilous mayfly species Procloeon nanum in the North East of Poland 83 JOHN C. ABBOTT & KENNETH W. STEWART - Drumming of three Mesocapnia species (Capniidae) and Soliperla thyra (Peltoperlidae) from California, USA 88

V RAINER RUPPRECHT - An attempt to explain different drumming signals within Capnia bifrons 93

SATOKO HANADA, YU ISOBE & TADASHI OISHI - Emergence sites as mate-encounter locations in Microperla brevicauda KAWAI (Plecoptera, Peltoperlidae) 99 KEVIN D. ALEXANDER & KENNETH W. STEWART - Further considerations of mate searching beha- viour and communication in adult stoneflies (Plecoptera); first report of tremulation in Suwallia (Chloroperlidae) 107 MICHAEL T. GILLIES - Gill mobility in the Baetidae (Ephemeroptera): results of a short study in Africa 113 IAN MCLELLAN - Austroperla cyrene an adaptable and unpalatable New Zealand stonefly 117

BIOGEOGRAPHY AND DISTRIBUTIONAL PATTERNS

UDO JACOB - Composition and zoogeographical characteristics of the Fennoscandian mayfly fauna 121 STEVEN K. BURIAN - An analysis of the distribution and diversity of Ephemeroptera of Maine, USA 127 YANKA VIDINOVA & BORIS RUSSEV - Distribution and ecology of the representatives of some Ephemeropteran families in Bulgaria : 139 DASA ZABRIC & MICHEL SARTORI - First contribution to the mayfly fauna from Slovenia (Ephemeroptera) 147 ASTRID SCHMIDT-KLOIBER - Ephemeroptera of an artificial Danube backwater irrigation system in Austria 152 TERESA JAZDZEWSKA - (Ephemeroptera) of the sandy bottom of the River Grabia (Central Poland) 157 MICHAEL MARTEN - Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera of the River Danube in Baden-Wiirttemberg (Germany) 167 EDWARD J. WISE & JAMES P. O'CONNOR - Observations on the distribution and relative abundance of the Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera in the Killarney Valley, CO. Kerry, Ireland 175 CLAUDIO G. FROEHLICH & LEANDRO G. OLIVEIRA - Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera nymphs from riffles in low-order streams in Southeastern Brazil 180 LIDIJA A. ZHILTZOVA - Zoogeographic features of the Euholognatha fauna (Plecoptera) of Russia and adjacent territories (within the limits of the former USSR) 186

VALENTINA A. TESLENKO, NOBORU MINAKAWA, GERALD F. KRAFT & ROBERT I. GARA - Stoneflies of the Southern Kuril Islands 193 IL'JA KRNO - Production and distribution of stoneflies (Plecoptera) of Slovakia 199 WOLFRAM GRAF - A new record of the perlid stonefly Agnetina elegantula (KLAPALEK, 1905) in Europe 205

BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT

BERHARD STATZNER - Complexity of theoretical concepts in ecology and predictive power: patterns observed in stream organisms 211

VLADIMIR LANDA, SVETLANA ZAHRADKOVA, TOMAS SOLDAN & JAN HELESIC - The Morava and Elbe river basins, Czech Republic: a comparison of long-term changes in mayfly (Ephemeroptera) biodiversity 219 PHILIPPE USSEGLIO-POLATERA - Long-term changes in the Ephemeroptera of the River Rhone at Lyon, France, assessed using a fuzzy coding approach 227

VI ANDREA BUFFAGNI - Mayfly community composition and the biological quality of streams 235 HENN TIMM - Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera larvae as environmental indicators in running waters of Estonia 247

OTTO MOOG, ERNST BAUERNFEIND & PETER WEICHSELBAUMER - The use of Ephemeroptera as sapro- bic indicators in Austria 254

MARA DEL CARMEN ZUNIGA DE CARDOSO, ANGELA MARTHA ROJAS DE HERNANDEZ & SANDRA MOSQUERA DE AGUILAR - Biological aspects of Ephemeroptera in rivers of Southwestern Colombia (South America) 261 EUGENIA A. NOVIKOVA & NIKITA JU. KLUGE - Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of the Western Siberian lowland and oil pollution 269 JUDE MUTUKU MATHOOKO - The influence of physical disturbance on recolonization patterns of a mayfly community in a tropical mountain stream 275 MAIGORZATA KIONOWSKA-OLEINIK - Ephemeroptera of the River Dunajec near Czorsztyn dam (Southern Poland) 282

VLADIM(R LANDA, JAN HELESIC, TOMAS SOLDAN & SVETLANA ZAHRADKOVA - Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of the River Vltava, Czech Republic: a century of extinction 288 DANIEL KURY - Changes in the Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera populations of a Swiss Jura stream (Roserenbach) between 1935 and 1990 296 JEAN-PIERRE RIBAUT - Protection of endangered species 302

ULTRASTRUCTURES, PHYSIOLOGY AND METHODS

CHRISTIAN ELPERS - Comparative morphology of the mandibles of seven genera of Ephemeroidea (Ephemeroptera) 311 ELDA GAINO & MANUELA REBORA - Antennal cuticular sensilla in some mayflies (Ephemeroptera) 317 TOM J. FINK & SHANDOR ANDRIKOVICS - The presumed role of wing sensory structures in the unique mating behavior of the endangered european mayflies Palingenia longicauda (OLIVIER) and Palingenia fuliginosa (GEORGI) (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) 326

ELDA GAINO, MANUELA REBORA, ANNA RITA TADDEI & MASSIMO MAZZINI - Ultrastructural aspects of the alimentary canal in some mayflies 332 NARINDER N. KAPOOR - A scanning electron microscopic study of the cuticular lining of the gut of a stonefly nymph, Paragnetina media (WALKER) (Plecoptera: Perlidae) 338 ELZBIETA ROSCISZEWSKA - Morphology of the larval ovary of stonefly Perla marginata (PANZER) (Plecoptera: Perlidae) 343 Yu ISOBE - Anchors of stonefly eggs 349 DENISE STUDEMANN & PETER LANDOLT - Eggs of Ephemerellidae (Ephemeroptera) 362 MAIGORZATA KIONOWSKA-OLEJNIK - The use of egg morphology in the of some species of the genus Rhithwgena (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae) 372 CORINNE FAVREL - Effect of freshwater acidification on the ionic regulation of Dinocras cephalotes (Plecoptera; Perlidae) 382

LAURENCE RUFFIEUX, MICHEL SARTORI & GENEVIEVE L'EPLATTENIER - Number of instars in mayfly larvae: A Palmen Body Method applied to Siphlonurus aestivalis (Siphlonuridae) 389

MANUEL L. PESCADOR, MICHAEL D. HUBBARD, ANDREW K. RASMUSSEN, JEROME JONES & STEPHEN LEONG - Influence of sampling methods of determination of mayfly (Ephemeroptera) species richness in a coastal plain stream , 395

VII SYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY

YEON JAE BAE - A historical review of Ephemeroptera systematics in the Northeast Asia 405 ERNST BAUERNFEIND - Discriminating characters in Central European species of Ecdyonurus EATON 418 CARLO BELFIORE - Taxonomic characters and discrimination of species in the genus Electrogena ZURWERRA & TOMKA, 1985 427 ANDREA BUFFAGNI - Taxonomic and faunistic notes on the Caenis pseudorivulorum-group (Ephemeroptera, Caenidae) 434 JEAN-MARC ELOUARD & MICHEL SARTORI - Proboscidoplocia, a singular plural (Ephemeroptera: Polymitarcyidae: Euthyplociinae) 439 WILLIAM L. PETERS - A redescription of the imago of Castanophlebia BARNARD, 1932 from South Africa (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae: Atalophlebiinae) 449 TOM GONSER & MARTIN SPIES - Southern hemisphere Symbiocladius (Diptera, Chironomidae) and their mayfly hosts (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae) 455 PETER P. HARPER & FRANCOISE HARPER - The genus Leuctra STEPHENS in North America: a prelimi- nary report 467 IGNAC SIVEC - Helenoperla malickyi, a new genus of European Perlidae (Plecoptera) from Greece .. 473

ROMOLO FocHETTi, MARINA COBOLLI, ELVIRA DE MATTHAEIS & MARCO OLIVERIO - Allozyme varia- tion in the genus Isoperla (Plecoptera, Perlodidae) from Mediterranean islands, with remarks on genetic data on stoneflies 476 KEVIN D. ALEXANDER & KENNETH W. STEWART - The importance of aedeagal characters in species delineation and revision of the stonefly tribe Suwalliini SURDICK (Chloroperlidae) 484 PETER ZWICK - Rauserella, a new genus of Plecoptera (Perlodidae), with notes on related genera 489

PHYLOGENY AND HISTORIC ASPECTS

RAINER WILLMANN - Phylogeny and the consequences of phylogenetic systematics 499 TOMA§ SOLDAN - Mayflies (Ephemeroptera): one of the earliest groups known to man 511 TOMAS SOLDAN - The Ephemeroptera: whose sister-group are they? 514 NIKITA Ju. KLUGE - A paradoxical problem in the phylogeny of Furcatergalia (Ephemeroptera) 520 NIKITA Ju. KLUGE - Classification and phylogeny of the Baetidae (Ephemeroptera) with description of the new species from the Upper Cretaceous resins of Taimyr 527 ARNOLD H. STANICZEK - The morphology of Siphlaenigma janae PENNIKET (Ephemeroptera, Siphlaenigmatidae), and its significance for the ground plan of the Baetoidea 536 PETER MALZACHER - Relationships in the Caenidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) 550 DENISE STUDEMANN & PETER LANDOLT - A phylogenetic system for the European species of Siphlonurus (Ephemeroptera, Siphlonuridae) 554 NINA D. SINICHENKOVA - Paleontology of stoneflies 561

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