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]
| Baetis fuscatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Ephemeroptera |
| Family: | Baetidae |
| Genus: | Baetis |
| Species: | B. fuscatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Baetis fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1761)
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References
edit- ^ 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).