Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of the Kuril Islands

Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok

I. Family Ephemeridae

1. Ephemera japonica, Shikotan, Kunashir, Sakhalin, Japan (Tshernova, 1973; Tshernova et al., 1986)
2. Ephemera strigata, Sakhalin, Japan; Kuril Islands (?)
3. Ephemera orientalis, Sakhalin, Japan; Kuril Islands (?)

II. Family Heptageniidae

4. Cinygma lyriformis, Kunashir (Tshernova, 1974)
5. Cinygmula kurenzovi, Shikotan; Hokkaido (?) (Tsherova et al., 1982; Tshernova et al., 1986)
6. Cinygmula cava, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin (Tshernova et al., 1982)
7. Ecdyonurus tobiironis, Japan; Kuril Islands (?)
8. Ecdyonurus yoshidae, Japan; Kuril Islands (?)
9. Ecdyonurus kibunensis, Japan; Kuril Islands (?)
10. Epeorus ermolenkoi, Shikotan, Kunashir (Tshernova, 1981; Tshernova et al., 1986; Tiunova, 1991)
11. Epeorus aesculus, wide spread, Kunashir, Sakhalin, Japan (Tshernova, 1981; Kluge and Tiunova, 1988)

III. Family Siphlonuridae

12. Ameletus costalis, Primorye, southern Kurils, Japan (Tshernova et al., 1986)
13. Ameletus montanus, wide spread, Sakhalin, Japan, Kuril Islands (?)
14. Isonychia japonica, wide spread, Japan, Kuril Islands (?)

IV. Family Baetidae

15. Baetis (Baetiella) tuberculatus, wide spread, Sakhalin, Japan, Kuril Islands (?)

V. Family Leptophlebiidae

16. Leptophlebia chocolata, wide spread, Japan, southern Kuril Islands (Tshernova et al., 1986)

VI. Family Ephemerellidae

17. Drunella basalis, Kunashir, Japan (Tshernova et al., 1986)
18. Drunella cryptomeria, Primorye, Sakhalin, Japan, Kuril Islands (?)
19. Cincticostella nigra, southern Primorye, southern Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Japan (Tshernova et al., 1986)

REFERENCES

KLUGE, N. Yu., and T. M. Tiunova. 1988. Palaearctic mayflies of the longimanus group of the subgenus Epeorus (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae). Vestn. Zool., 4: 7-14 [in Russian].

TIUNOVA, T. M. 1991. A new species of mayfly (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae) from Primorye Region (Far East USSR). Vestn. Zool., 3: 13-17 [in Russian].

TSHERNOVA, O. A. 1973. Palaearctic mayfly species of the genus Ephemera L. (Ephemeroptera, Ephemeridae). Entomol. Obozrenie, 52 (2): 324-339 [in Russian].

TSHERNOVA, O. A. 1974. The generic composition of the mayflies of the family Heptageniidae (Ephemeroptera) in the Holarctic and Oriental Region. Entomol. Obozrenie, 53(4): 801-814 [in Russian].

TSHERNOVA, O. A. 1981. On the systematics of adult mayflies of the genus Epeorus Eaton, 1881 (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae). Entomol. Obozrenie, 60(2): 323-336 [in Russian].

TSHERNOVA, O. A., and V. V. Belov. 1982. On the systematics of adult palaearctic mayflies of the genus Cinygmula McD., 1933 (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae). Entomol. Obozrenie, 61(2): 278-296 [in Russian].

TSHERNOVA, O. A., N. Yu. Kluge, N. D. Sinitshenkova, and V. V. Belov. 1986. Order Ephemeroptera, Mayflies. pp. 99-142, In: Keys to the Insects of Far Eastern USSR in XIX Volumes. Leningrad [in Russian].