Coloburiscidae
Coloburiscidae is a family of mayflies in the order Ephemeroptera, with at least seven species in three genera native to Australia, New Zealand, and Chile. Genera These three genera belong to the family Coloburiscidae: * '' Coloburiscoides'' Lestage, 1935 - Australia * '' Coloburiscus'' Eaton, 1888 - New Zealand * '' Murphyella'' Lestage, 1930 - Chile References Further reading * Mayflies Insect families {{mayfly-stub ...
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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 Ephemeroptera. This order is part of an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains dragonflies and damselflies. Over 3,000 species of mayfly are known worldwide, grouped into over 400 genera in 42 families. Mayflies have ancestral traits that were probably present in the first flying insects, such as long tails and wings that do not fold flat over the abdomen. Their immature stages are aquatic fresh water forms (called "naiads" or "nymphs"), whose presence indicates a clean, unpolluted and highly oxygenated aquatic environment. They are unique among insect orders in having a fully winged terrestrial preadult stage, the subimago, which moults into a sexually mature adult, the imago. Mayflies "hatch" (emerge as ...
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