Vietnamellidae

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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]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Clade:Pancrustacea
Class:Insecta
Order:Ephemeroptera
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Vietnamellidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian-Present
Larvae (top) and moulting adult (bottom) of Vietnamella thani
Adult imago of Burmella paucivenosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Superfamily: Ephemerelloidea
Family: Vietnamellidae
Allen, 1984
Genera
  • Vietnamella
  • †Burmella
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Taxonomy

  • Vietnamella Tshernova, 1972
    • V. thani Tshernova, 1972
    • V. ornata Tshernova, 1972
    • V. sinensis (Hsu, 1936)
    • V. maculosa Auychinda et al. 2020[1]
    • V. nanensis Auychinda et al. 2020[3]
    • V. chebalingensis Tong, 2020[4]
  • †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

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