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Cloe alpina Pictet 1843

  • 1. Musée cantonal de zoologie, Palais de Rumine, Place Riponne 6, CH- 1005 Lausanne, Suisse. & Département d'Ecologie et d'Evolution, Biophore, Université de Lausanne, CH- 1015 Lausanne, Suisse.
  • 2. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, A- 1010 Wien, Österreich. E-mail: ernst. bauernfeind @ nhm-wien. ac. at * Corresponding author: michel. sartori @ vd. ch

Description

Cloe alpina F.-J. Pictet, 1843

Cloe alpina F.-J. Pictet 1843 -1845: 257-258, pl. 40, fig. 5.

Baetis alpinus. – Eaton, 1871: 118 (transfer).

Accepted name: Baetis alpinus (F.-J. Pictet, 1843).

Locus typicus: “… au bord d’un torrent très rapide, qui descend du mont Brévent dans la vallée de Chamounix”.

Type material: Holotype [by monotypy], male imago, not traced. Müller-Liebenau (1969: 201) already mentioned that the type was probably missing.

Remarks: Baetis alpinus is a widespread species in montane and submontane zones of Europe. It is by far the most abundant species in the Alps.

Notes

Published as part of Sartori, Michel & Bauernfeind, Ernst, 2020, Mayfly types and additional material (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) examined by F. - J. Pictet and A. - E. Pictet, housed in the Museums of Natural History of Geneva and Vienna, pp. 315-339 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (2) on page 328, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0022, http://zenodo.org/record/5743794

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pictet
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ephemeroptera
Family
Baetidae
Genus
Cloe
Species
alpina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cloe alpina Pictet, 1843 sec. Sartori & Bauernfeind, 2020

References

  • Pictet F. - J. 1843 - 1845. Histoire naturelle des Insectes Nevropteres. Famille des Ephemerines. J. Kessmann, Geneve, 300 pp. + 47 pl.
  • Eaton A. E. 1871. A monograph of the Ephemeridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1871: 1 - 164.
  • Muller-Liebenau I. 1969. Revision der europaischen Arten der Gattung Baetis Leach, 1815 (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). Gewasser und Abwasser 48 / 49: 1 - 214.