Photograph courtesy of Institute for Water Quality Studies, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry

The Tricorythid Mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae) of South Africa

Compiled by Helen Barber-James

Department of Freshwater Invertebrates, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 6140 South Africa

© Copyright of this page belongs to the author.
Yours is the access since 1st January 2000


Family: TRICORYTHIDAE Lestage 1942

  1. Genus: DICERCOMYZON Demoulin 1954
    1. D. costale Kimmins
      Dicercomyzon costale Kimmins 1957


  2. Genus: TRICORYTHUS Eaton 1868
    1. T. discolor (Burmeister)
      Oxycypha discolor Burmeister 1839
      Cloeon discolor Walker 1853
      Caenis discolor Eaton 1871
      Tricorythus discolor Eaton 1884
      Neurocaenis discolor Demoulin 1954
      Tricorythus discolor McCafferty & de Moor 1995

    2. T. reticulatus Barnard
      Neurocaenis reticulata Barnard 1932
      Tricorythus reticulatus McCafferty & de Moor 1995

    3. T. tinctus Kimmins
      Tricorythus tinctus Kimmins 1956



This part of A Catalogue of South African Insects revised: