Caenoidea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Ephemeroptera
Subordo: Furcatergalia
Infraordo: Pannota
Superfamilia: Caenoidea
Familiae: Caenidae - Neoephemeridae - Prosopistomatidae
Name

Caenoidea Edmunds & Traver, 1954
Vernacular names
English: Squaregill Mayflies

Caenoidea is a superfamily of mayflies in the suborder Pannota. Members of this superfamily can be distinguished from those of Ephemerelloidea by the fact that the gills of the nymphs are filamentous.[1]

The following families are recognised:[2]

Baetiscidae
Caenidae
Neoephemeridae
Prosopistomatidae

References

Dias, Lucimar G.; Salles, Frederico F.; Francischetti, Cesar N.; Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio F. (2006). "Key to the genera of Ephemerelloidea (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from Brazil". Biota Neotropica. 6 (1). doi:10.1590/S1676-06032006000100015.
"Ephemoptera: Mayflies". The Tree of Life Web Project. 2002. Retrieved 2015-06-01.