Vietnamellidae is a family of ephemerelloid mayflies. It contains a single extant genus, Vietnamella, with several species native to India, Southeast Asia, and China. A fossil genus Burmella is known from the Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to the mid-Cretaceous around 100 million years ago.[1][2]
Vietnamellidae Temporal range:
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Larvae (top) and moulting adult (bottom) of Vietnamella thani | |
Adult imago of Burmella paucivenosa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Ephemeroptera |
Superfamily: | Ephemerelloidea |
Family: | Vietnamellidae Allen, 1984 |
Genera | |
Taxonomy
edit- Vietnamella Tshernova, 1972
- †Burmella Godunko, et al. 2021 Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian)[2]
- †B. paucivenosa Godunko, et al. 2021
- †B. clypeata Godunko, et al. 2021
References
edit- ^ a b Auychinda, Chonlakran; Sartori, Michel; Boonsoong, Boonsatien (2020-01-13). "Vietnamellidae (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) of Thailand". ZooKeys (902): 17–36. doi:10.3897/zookeys.902.46844. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6971129. PMID 31988597.
- ^ a b Godunko, Roman J.; Martynov, Alexander V.; Staniczek, Arnold H. (2021-05-10). "First fossil record of the mayfly family Vietnamellidae (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) from Burmese Amber confirms its Oriental origin and gives new insights into its evolution". ZooKeys (1036): 99–120. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1036.66435. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 8128840. PMID 34040482.
- ^ Auychinda, Chonlakran; Jacobus, Luke; Sartori, Michel; Boonsoong, Boonsatien (2020-08-20). "A New Species of Vietnamella Tshernova 1972 (Ephemeroptera: Vietnamellidae) from Thailand". Insects. 11 (9): 554. doi:10.3390/insects11090554. ISSN 2075-4450. PMC 7563720. PMID 32825240.
- ^ Luo, Yanping; Jiang, Jian; Wang, Lili; Shu, Zufei; Tong, Xiaoli (2020-10-27). "Vietnamella chebalingensis, a new species of the family Vietnamellidae (Ephemeroptera) from China based on morphological and molecular data". Zootaxa. 4868 (2): 208–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4868.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311398. S2CID 228991433.