Baetis fuscatus

Baetis fuscatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Family: Baetidae
Genus: Baetis
Species:
B. fuscatus
Binomial name
Baetis fuscatus
(Linnaeus, 1761)

Baetis fuscatus is the type species of the genus Baetis: it is a European mayfly and was originally described as Ephemera fuscata by Linnaeus in 1761, before assignment to the new genus by W.E. Leach.[1]

References

  1. ^ Leach WE (1815) Entomology [pp. 57-172]. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia; conducted by David Brewster, with the assistance of gentlemen eminent in science and literature 9(1): 1-384 (p. 137).