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''Atopopus'' is a genus of
mayfly 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 orde ...
under the family
Heptageniidae The Heptageniidae (synonym: Ecdyonuridae) are a family of mayfly, mayflies with over 500 described species mainly distributed in the Holarctic, Oriental, and Afrotropical regions, and also present in the Central American Tropics and extreme north ...
. Species of this genera usually have brown staining near the edges of their
forewings Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insect flight, insects to fly. They are found on the second and third Thorax (insect anatomy), thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often ...
and
hindwings Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hindwi ...
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Species

This genus contains four species: * '' Atopopus edmundsi'' * '' Atopopus meyi'' * '' Atopopus tarsalis'' * '' Atopopus tibialis''


References

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