Genus Pentagenia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

mayfly at blacklight - Pentagenia vittigera

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)

Suborder Furcatergalia

Infraorder Scapphodonta

Superfamily Ephemeroidea

Family Palingeniidae (Riverbed Burrower Mayflies)

Genus Pentagenia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

treated in Ephemeridae in(1)

Explanation of Names

Pentagenia Walsh 1863

Numbers

2 spp. (of which one recently extinct) in the genus, both in our area(1)(2)

Range

nearctic genus(1)

Works Cited

1.	Barber-James H., Sartori M., Gattolliat J-L., Webb J. (2013) World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species

2.	Mayfly Central

Contributed by Roger Rohrbeck on 10 June, 2011 - 12:03pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 February, 2014 - 11:05pm

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