Furcatergalia

Furcatergalia
Baetisca berneri
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 14 families and at least 1,700 described species in Furcatergalia.

Teloganopsis deficiens

Families

These 14 families belong to the suborder Furcatergalia:

• Baetiscidae
• Behningiidae (sand-burrowing mayflies)
• Caenidae (small squaregilled mayflies)
• Ephemerellidae (spiny crawler mayflies)
• Ephemeridae (common burrower mayflies)
• Euthyplociidae
• Leptohyphidae (little stout crawler mayflies)
• Leptophlebiidae (pronggilled mayflies)
• Neoephemeridae (large squaregill mayflies)
• Palingeniidae (riverbed burrower mayflies)
• Polymitarcyidae (pale burrower mayflies)
• Potamanthidae (hacklegilled burrower mayflies)
• Prosopistomatidae
• Tricorythidae

Further reading

• 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. Developments in Hydrobiology. Vol. 595. Springer. pp. 339–350. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8259-7_37. ISBN 978-1-4020-8258-0.
• 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. S2CID 39671739.
• 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. S2CID 39201439.
• Edmunds Jr., George F. (1972). "Biogeography and evolution of Ephemeroptera". Annual Review of Entomology. 17: 21–42. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.17.010172.000321.