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Neoephemera Maxima
''Neoephemera maxima'' is a species of mayfly belonging to the family Neoephemeridae. It is native to Europe. Synonym: * ''Leucorhoenanthus maximus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q13884075 Mayflies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoephemeridae
Neoephemeridae is a family of large squaregill mayflies in the order Ephemeroptera. There are at least four genera and about 17 described species in Neoephemeridae. Genera These four genera belong to the family Neoephemeridae: * '' Leucorhoenanthus'' Lestage, 1930 * ''Neoephemera ''Neoephemera'' is a genus of large squaregill mayflies in the family Neoephemeridae first described by McDunnough (1925). and containing approximately six described species in ''Neoephemera''. Species These six species belong to the genus ''N ...'' McDunnough, 1925 (large squaregill mayflies) * '' Ochernova'' Bae & McCafferty, 1998 * '' Potamanthellus'' Lestage, 1930 References Further reading * * * * Mayflies Insect families Articles created by Qbugbot {{mayfly-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
