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.

Furcatergalia
Baetisca berneri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Ephemeroptera
Suborder:	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.