Caenoidea is a
superfamily of
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 suborder
Pannota
Pannota is a suborder of mayflies. One of the differences between this suborder and its sister group Schistonota concerns the degree of fusion of the wing pads in the final-stage nymph; in Schistonota, the degree of fusion along the mesothorax ...
. Members of this superfamily can be distinguished from those of
Ephemerelloidea by the fact that the gills of the nymphs are filamentous.
The following families are recognised:
*
Baetiscidae
*
Caenidae
*
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:
* '' Leucorhoenan ...
*
Prosopistomatidae
References
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Mayflies
Insect superfamilies