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Ephemera

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Ephemeridae

Taxonomy
Ephemera was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Ephemeridae.

It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Gymnoptera by Schaeffer (1766); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Neuroptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Papilionaceae by Latreille (1802); and to Ephemeridae by Scudder (1890), Ogden et al. (2009).

Species
E. exsucca, E. howarthi, E. immobilis, E. interempta, E. macilenta, E. pumicosa, E. tabifica
Entered
by A. Aguilar (authorized by M. Clapham) on 2011-08-05; modified by M. Clapham on 2015-09-13

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Ephemera Linnaeus p. 546
1761Ephemera Linnaeus p. 376
1762Ephemera Geoffroy p. 234
1763Ephemera Scopoli p. 263
1764Ephemera Müller p. 63
1766Ephemera Schaeffer
1767Ephemera Linnaeus p. 906
1775Ephemera Fabricius p. 303
1776Ephemera Müller p. 142
1796Ephemera Latreille p. 96
1802Ephemera Latreille p. 297
1890Ephemera Scudder p. 118
2009Ephemera Ogden et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—PanephemeropteraCrampton 1928
—Ephemerida(Latreille 1810)
—Heptabranchia
orderEphemeropteraHyatt and Arms 1890
—EuplectopteraTillyard 1932
—AnteritornaKluge 1993
—BidentisataKluge 1993
—FurcatergaliaKluge 1998
—Fossoriae
familyEphemeridae
genusEphemera

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Ephemera Linnaeus 1758
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†Ephemera exsucca Scudder 1890
†Ephemera howarthi Cockerell 1908
†Ephemera immobilis Scudder 1890
†Ephemera interempta Scudder 1890
†Ephemera macilenta Scudder 1890
†Ephemera pumicosa Scudder 1890
†Ephemera tabifica Scudder 1890
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Chadronian or 37.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9USA (Colorado) E. interempta (122093)
Chadronian37.0 - 33.9USA (Colorado) E. howarthi (106380 106381 123119) E. tabifica, E. immobilis, E. macilenta, E. pumicosa, E. interempta, E. exsucca (106384)