Heptagenia shanwangensis Hong 1984 (stream mayfly)

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Heptageniidae

Alternative combination: Ephemerella shanwangensis

Full reference: Y. C. Hong. 1984. Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 8:1-15

Belongs to Heptagenia according to X. M. Yang et al. 2023

See also Hong 1984 and Zhang 1989

Sister taxa: Heptagenia atypica, Heptagenia bachofeni, Heptagenia fluminea, Heptagenia gleissi, Heptagenia ligata, Heptagenia senex

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection Dong, which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Shanwang, Linqu County, collection Dong

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