Biology:Siphluriscidae

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Short description: Family of mayflies

Siphluriscidae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Family: Siphluriscidae
Zhou and Peters, 2003
Genera
  • Siphluriscus
  • Stackelbergisca

Siphluriscidae is a family of mayflies. It contains a single extant species, Siphluriscus chinensis, which is native to Vietnam and China.[1][2] It is thought to be the most primitive living lineage of mayflies.[3] A fossil genus, Stackelbergisca is known from several species from the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Asia.[1] A second species of Siphluriscus, S. davidi was later assigned to the genus Siphlonurus.[1]

Taxonomy

  • Siphluriscus Ulmer, 1920
    • Siphluriscus chinensis Ulmer, 1920 China, Vietnam
  • Stackelbergisca Tshernova 1967
    • Stackelbergisca clara Sinitshenkova 2000 Doronino Formation, Russia, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)
    • Stackelbergisca cylindrata Zhang 2006 Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic
    • Stackelbergisca shaburensis Sinitshenkova 1991 Ichetuy Formation, Russia, Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)
    • Stackelbergisca sibirica Tshernova 1967 Uda Formation, Russia, Late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zhou, Chang-Fa; Peters, Janice G. (September 2003). "The Nymph of Siphluriscus Chinensis and Additional Imaginal Description: A Living Mayfly with Jurassic Origins (Siphluriscidae New Family: Ephemeroptera)". Florida Entomologist 86 (3): 345–352. doi:10.1653/0015-4040(2003)086[0345:tnosca2.0.co;2]. ISSN 0015-4040. 
  2. Van Vinh Nguyen , Van Hieu Nguyen and Yeon Jae Bae, A Rare Mayfly Siphluriscus chinensis Ulmer (Ephemeroptera: Siphluriscidae) from Vietnam Entomological Research Bulletin 31(1): 56-57 (2015)
  3. Li, Dan; Qin, Jia-Chang; Zhou, Chang-Fa (July 2014). "The phylogeny of Ephemeroptera in Pterygota revealed by the mitochondrial genome of Siphluriscus chinensis (Hexapoda: Insecta)" (in en). Gene 545 (1): 132–140. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2014.04.059. PMID 24780864. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0378111914005010. 

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