''Cloeon'' is a cosmopolitan
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
mayflies
Mayflies (also known as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern United States, as Canadian soldiers in the American Great Lakes region, and as up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order ...
of the family
Baetidae
Baetidae is a family of mayflies with about 1000 described species in 110 genera distributed worldwide. These are among the smallest of mayflies, adults rarely exceeding 10 mm in length excluding the two long slender tails and sometimes muc ...
.
Species
* ''
Cloeon degrangei''
* ''
Cloeon dipterum
''Cloeon dipterum'' is a species of mayfly with a Holarctic distribution. It is the most common mayfly in ponds in the British Isles and the only ovoviviparous mayfly in Europe. Males differ from females in having turbinate eyes.
Description
I ...
'' (formerly ''C. cognatum'', ''C. inscriptum'')
* ''
Cloeon fluviatile''
* ''
Cloeon languidum''
* ''
Cloeon ''nandirum''''
* ''
Cloeon ''paradieniense''''
* ''
Cloeon petropolitanum''
* ''
Cloeon praetextum''
* ''
Cloeon schoenemundi''
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Cloeon simile''
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Cloeon ''tasmaniae''''
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Cloeon virens''
Mayfly genera
Taxa named by William Elford Leach
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