''Tikuna'' is a genus of central and South American
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 ...
in the family
Leptophlebiidae
Leptophlebiidae is a family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideal ...
, erected by Harry Savage, Wills Flowers, and Wendy Porras in 2005.
[Savage HM, Flowers RW, Porras WV (2005) Rediscovery of '' Choroterpes atramentum'' in Costa Rica, type species of ''Tikuna'' new genus (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae: Atalophlebiinae), and its role in the "Great American Interchange". ''Zootaxa'', no. 932. 1-14.]
Species
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Tikuna atramentum'' - type species
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Tikuna bilineata''
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Tikuna fusconotum''
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Tikuna nigrobulla''
References
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Mayfly genera
Leptophlebiidae
Taxa described in 2005
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