About Mayfly Central
Luke M. Jacobus (steward)
- Indiana University Columbus
W. Patrick McCafferty (founder, retired)
- Purdue University
Mayfly Central is a place, a program, and an information resource. It is affiliated with the Department of Entomology at Purdue University and the Indiana University Columbus. The program is a multidimensional research and education program dedicated to the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge about mayflies, or the insect order Ephemeroptera, from throughout the world. The resource involves information about mayflies, especially the taxonomy and geographic distribution of species in North America and Central America.
Undergirding all of this is a premier research and reference collection of mayflies housed in the Purdue Entomological Research Collection (PERC). The mayfly collection has grown from 250,000 specimens when Mayfly Central was first launched and is now believed to be one of the most comprehensive collections of mayflies in existence. This collection contains specimens from throughout the world, representing most known taxa and numerous new taxa yet to be described; it includes over 689,000 specimens, 2000 + species, and approximately 3900 holotypes and paratypes. The type collection can be searched online via the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network.
Associates
(direct and indirect data contributors, graduate program alumni, guests & collaborators):
Jae Bae (University of Korea)
Helen Barber James (Albany Museum, South Africa)
David Baumgardner (Texas A&M University)
Steven Beaty (North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality)
Andrew Bednarik (Housatonic Community College)
Mike Bolton (Ohio EPA)
Ethan Bright (University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology)
Greg R. Bright (Commonwealth Biomonitoring, Inc.)
Steve Burian (Southern Connecticut State University)
Broughton Caldwell (Braselton, GA)
Paulo Vilela Cruz (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brazil)
Ed DeWalt (Illinois Natural History Survey)
George F. Edmunds, Jr. (University of Utah)
Sanaa Enkhtaivan (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
Eric Fleek (North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality)
Ines Correa Goncalves (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Matthew Green (Clemson University)
Jami Guenther (Riverview, Florida)
Dan Gustafson (Montana State University)
Rick Hafele (Portland, Oregon)
Victor Holland (North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality)
Greg Hoover (Penn State University)
Todd Hubbard (University of Iowa)
Jeong Mi Hwang (University of Korea)
Tom Klubertanz (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater)
Dave Lenat (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Gary Lester (EcoAnalysts, Inc.)
Carlos Lugo-Ortiz (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico)
Michael Meyer (Christopher Newport University)
Dennis Morihara
Bob Newell (Dayton, Washington)
Arwin Provonsha (Purdue University)
Pat Randolph (University of California, Davis)
Will Reeves (Atlanta, Georgia)
Frederico F. Salles (Universidade Federal de Vicosa)
Bill Shepard (University of California, Berkeley)
Lu Sun (National Institute of Health)
Mark Vinson (Utah State University)
Bob Waltz (Purdue University)
Tianqi Wang (Andover, Massachusetts)
Jeff Webb (Rhithron Associates Inc)
Nick Wiersema (Austin, Texas)
Chang-Fa Zhou (Nanjing Normal University, China)
Jack Zloty (University of Calgary)