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Genus of mayflies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ameletus is a genus of mayfly and the type genus of the family Ameletidae.
Ameletus | |
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Ameletus cryptostimulus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Ephemeroptera |
Family: | Ameletidae |
Genus: | Ameletus Eaton, 1865[1] |
Type species | |
Ameletus subnotatus Eaton, 1885 | |
Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Ameletus was circumscribed by Rev. A. E. Eaton in 1885. His initial circumscription included three species, all of which were described in the same paper: the type species A. dissitus, A. subnotatus, and A. exquisitus.[1]
R. P. Longinus Navás circumscribed the genus Chimura in 1915. It only consisted of its type species, the newly described C. aetherea.[4] In 1960, Edmunds synonymized Chimura with Ameletus.[5]
Paleoameletus was circumscribed by J. A. Lestage in 1940; he created it for the species A. primitivus which J. R. Traver had described the previous year.[6] George F. Edmunds, Jr., and Jay R. Traver synonymized Paleoameletus with Ameletus in 1954.[7]
Ameletus species include:[8]
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