Furcatergalia

Furcatergalia
Eurylophella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Ephemeroptera
Suborder:	Furcatergalia

Furcatergalia is a suborder of mayflies in the order Ephemeroptera. There are about 12 families and at least 350 described species in Furcatergalia.

Teloganopsis deficiens

Families

These 12 families belong to the suborder Furcatergalia:

• Behningiidae ^{i c g b} (sand-burrowing mayflies)
• Caenidae ^{i c g b} (small squaregilled mayflies)
• Ephemerellidae ^{i c g b} (spiny crawler mayflies)
• Ephemeridae ^{i c g b} (common burrower mayflies)
• Euthyplociidae ^{i c g}
• Leptohyphidae ^{i c g b} (little stout crawler mayflies)
• Leptophlebiidae ^{i c g b} (pronggilled mayflies)
• Neoephemeridae ^{i c g b} (large squaregill mayflies)
• Palingeniidae ^{i c g b} (riverbed burrower mayflies)
• Polymitarcyidae ^{i c g b} (pale burrower mayflies)
• Potamanthidae ^{i c g b} (hacklegilled burrower mayflies)
• Tricorythidae ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Arnett, Ross H.; Jacques, Richard L. (1981). Simon & Schuster's Guide to Insects. Fireside. ISBN 978-0671250140.
• Barber-James, Helen M.; Gattolliat, Jean-Luc; Sartori, Michel; Hubbard, Michael D. (2008). "Global diversity of mayflies (Ephemeroptera, Insecta) in freshwater". Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment. 595 (1). Springer: 339–350. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_37.
• Barber-James, H.; Sartori, M.; Gattolliat, J-L.; Webb, J. (2013). "World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species". Retrieved 2018-04-11.
• Borror, Donald J.; Peterson, Roger Tory; White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0395911709.
• Campbell, Ian C., ed. (1990). Mayflies and stoneflies: Life histories and biology. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2397-3. ISBN 978-94-010-7579-4.
• Edmunds Jr., George F. (1972). "Biogeography and evolution of Ephemeroptera". Annual Review of Entomology. 17 (1). Annual Reviews: 21–42. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.17.010172.000321.
• Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
• Grimaldi, D.; Engel, M.S. (2005). Evolution of the Insects. ISBN 978-0521821490.
• Johnson, Norman F.; Triplehorn, Charles A. (2004). Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects. Brooks Cole. ISBN 978-0030968358.
• Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
• Kluge, Nikita (2013). The phylogenetic system of Ephemeroptera. Springer Science & Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0872-3. ISBN 978-94-015-3942-5.
• Majka, C. (2009). "Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island". ZooKeys. 22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.93.
• Misof, B.; Liu, S.; Meusemann, K.; Peters, R.S.; et al. (2014). "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 346 (6210): 763. doi:10.1126/science.1257570.

External links

• Media related to Furcatergalia at Wikimedia Commons