Ameletus

Ameletus was circumscribed by Rev. A. E. Eaton in 1885. His initial circumscription included three species, all of which were described in the same paper: the type species A. dissitus, A. subnotatus, and A. exquisitus.^[1]

R. P. Longinus Navás circumscribed the genus Chimura in 1915. It only consisted of its type species, the newly described C. aetherea.^[4] In 1960, Edmunds synonymized Chimura with Ameletus.^[5]

Paleoameletus was circumscribed by J. A. Lestage in 1940; he created it for the species A. primitivus which J. R. Traver had described the previous year.^[6] George F. Edmunds, Jr., and Jay R. Traver synonymized Paleoameletus with Ameletus in 1954.^[7]

Ameletus species include:^[8]