Hexagenites weyenberghi Scudder 1880 (mayfly)

Insecta - Ephemeroptera - Hexagenitidae

Alternative combination: Hexagenites weyenberghii

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1880. The Devonian insects of New Brunswick. Anniversary Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 1830-1880 1-41

Belongs to Hexagenites according to R. Willmann 2007

See also Carpenter 1932, Demoulin 1953, Demoulin 1967, Handlirsch 1906 and Scudder 1880

Sister taxon: Hexagenites cellulosus

Type specimen: MCZ 6277, a wing (fragment of a wing). Its type locality is Solnhofen (BMNH collection), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Solnhofen (BMNH collection)

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