Oligoneuriidae Explained

Oligoneuriidae is a family of mayflies with a pantropical distribution. They are also known as brushlegged mayflies due to the presence of two rows of setae used for filtration on the front legs of their nymphs. Nymphs also have tufts of gills at the base of their maxillae. There are at least 68 described species in over a dozen genera.

Genera

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• Subfamily Oligoneuriinae Ulmer, 1914
  • Homoeoneuria Eaton, 1881
  • Lachlania Hagen, 1868
  • Oligoneuria Pictet, 1843
  • Oligoneuriopsis Crass, 1947
  • Spaniophlebia Eaton, 1881
  • Elassoneuria Eaton 1881
  • Yawari (Salles, Soares, Massariol & Faria, 2014)
  • Madeconeuria (Demoulin, 1973)
  • Fittkauneuria Pescador & Edmunds, 1994
  • Rianilaneuria Pescador & Peters, 2007
• Subfamily Chromarcyinae Demoulin, 1953
  • Chromarcys Navás, 1932.
• Subfamily Incogemininae Storari et al. 2020
  • Incogemina Storari et al. 2020 Crato Formation, Brazil, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)^[2]
• Subfamily Colocrurinae McCafferty, 1990
  • Colocrus McCafferty, 1990 Crato Formation, Brazil, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

Further reading

• Book: Ross H. Arnett. 30 July 2000. American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. 978-0-8493-0212-1.

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Oligoneuriidae

Notes and References

1. Massariol . Fabiana Criste . Takiya . Daniela Maeda . Salles . Frederico Falcão . 2019-09-30 . Global classification and evolution of brushlegged mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera: Oligoneuriidae): phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data and dated historical biogeography . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . en . 187 . 2 . 378–412 . 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz031 . 0024-4082.
2. Storari . Arianny P. . Rodrigues . Taissa . Saraiva . Antonio A. F. . Salles . Frederico F. . 2020-10-28 . Richter . Martha . Unmasking a gap: A new oligoneuriid fossil (Ephemeroptera: Insecta) from the Crato Formation (upper Aptian), Araripe Basin, NE Brazil, with comments on Colocrus McCafferty . PLOS ONE . en . 15 . 10 . e0240365 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0240365 . 1932-6203 . 7592730 . 33112866 . free .