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: Cenomanian-Present
Larvae (top) and moulting adult (bottom) of Vietnamella thani
Adult imago of Burmella paucivenosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Family: Vietnamellidae
Allen, 1984
Genera

Taxonomy edit

  • 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

References edit

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.