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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) and Latreille (1796); to Papilionaceae by Latreille (1802); and to Ephemeridae by Scudder (1890) and Ogden et al. (2009).

Species

E. exsucca, E. howarthi, E. immobilis, E. interempta, E. macilenta, E. pumicosa, E. tabifica

Synonymy list

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

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969

Rank	Name	Author
—	Euhydropalaeoptera
—	Panephemeroptera	Crampton 1928
—	Ephemerida	(Latreille 1810)
—	Heptabranchia
order	Ephemeroptera	Hyatt and Arms 1890
—	Euplectoptera	Tillyard 1932
—	Anteritorna	Kluge 1993
—	Bidentisata	Kluge 1993
—	Furcatergalia	Kluge 1998
—	Fossoriae
family	Ephemeridae
genus	Ephemera

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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Eocene or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chadronian	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	E. howarthi (106380 106381 123119) E. tabifica, E. immobilis, E. macilenta, E. pumicosa, E. interempta, E. exsucca (106384)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	E. interempta (122093)