Oligoneuriidae is a family 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 orde ...
with a
pantropical
A pantropical ("all tropics") distribution is one which covers Tropics, tropical regions of both hemispheres. Examples of species include caecilians, modern sirenians and the plant genera ''Acacia'' and ''Bacopa''.
''Neotropical'' is a zoogeogra ...
distribution. They are also known as brushlegged mayflies due to the presence of two rows of
setae
In biology, setae (singular seta ; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms.
Animal setae
Protostomes
Annelid setae are stiff bristles present on the body. Th ...
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
After
* 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
The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous ( Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It is an important Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) for palaeontologists. The strata were laid down mostly duri ...
, Brazil, Early Cretaceous (
Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous Epoch or Series and encompasses the time from 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma to 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma (million years ago), a ...
)
*Subfamily Colocrurinae McCafferty, 1990
** ''
Colocrus'' McCafferty, 1990 Crato Formation, Brazil, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
References
Further reading
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External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Oligoneuriidae
insect families
Mayflies
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