Biology:Heptagenia

Short description: Genus of mayflies

Heptagenia
Heptagenia flava
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Ephemeroptera
Family:	Heptageniidae
Genus:	Heptagenia Walsh, 1863

Heptagenia is a genus of flatheaded mayflies in the family Heptageniidae. There are at least 20 described species in Heptagenia.

Heptagenia sulphurea

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Heptagenia:

• Heptagenia adaequata McDunnough, 1924 ^{i c g}
• Heptagenia chinensis Ulmer, 1920 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia culacantha Evans, Botts and Flowers, 1985 ^{i c g}
• Heptagenia dalecarlica Bengtsson, 1912 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia dolosa Traver, 1935 ^{i c g}
• Heptagenia elegantula (Eaton, 1885) ^{i c g b}
• Heptagenia flava Rostock, 1878 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia flavata Navás, 1922 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia flavescens (Walsh, 1862) ^{i c g b}
• Heptagenia guranica Belov, 1981 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia joernensis ^g
• Heptagenia julia Traver, 1933 ^{i c g}
• Heptagenia kyotoensis Gose, 1963 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia longicauda (Stephens, 1836) ^{c g}
• Heptagenia marginalis Banks, 1910 ^{i c g b}
• Heptagenia nubila Kimmins, 1937 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia patoka Burks, 1946 ^{i c g}
• Heptagenia pectoralis Matsumura, 1931 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia perflava Brodsky, 1930 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia pulla (Clemens, 1913) ^{i c g}
• Heptagenia quadripunctata Kluge, 1989 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia samochai (Demoulin, 1973) ^{c g}
• Heptagenia solitaria McDunnough, 1924 ^{i c g b}
• Heptagenia sulphurea (Müller, 1776) ^{c g}
• Heptagenia townesi Traver, 1935 ^{i c g}
• Heptagenia traverae Braasch, 1986 ^{c g}
• Heptagenia whitingi Webb and McCafferty in Webb, Sun, McCafferty and Ferris, 2007 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

• Chinery, Michael (1986). Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe. London: Collins. ISBN 0-00-219170-9. 

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC. 
• Barber-James, Helen M.; Gattolliat, Jean-Luc; Sartori, Michel; Hubbard, Michael D. (2008). "Global diversity of mayflies (Ephemeroptera, Insecta) in freshwater". Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (Springer) 595 (1): 339–350. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_37. 
• Barber-James, H.; Sartori, M.; Gattolliat, J-L.; Webb, J. (2013). "World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species". https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ff2d1f5b-a105-442f-bbfd-97597d40cde3. Retrieved 2018-05-04. 
• Mayflies and stoneflies: Life histories and biology. Springer. 1990. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2397-3. ISBN 978-94-010-7579-4. 
• Edmunds Jr., George F. (1972). "Biogeography and evolution of Ephemeroptera". Annual Review of Entomology (Annual Reviews) 17 (1): 21–42. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.17.010172.000321. 
• Kluge, Nikita (2013). The phylogenetic system of Ephemeroptera. Springer Science & Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0872-3. ISBN 978-94-015-3942-5. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3006631 entry