Vietnamellidae
Sign in to saveVietnamellidae 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.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderEphemeroptera
- FamilyVietnamellidae
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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.
== Taxonomy == Vietnamella Tshernova, 1972 V. thani Tshernova, 1972 V. ornata Tshernova, 1972 V. sinensis (Hsu, 1936) V. maculosa Auychinda et al. 2020 V. nanensis Auychinda et al. 2020 V. chebalingensis Tong, 2020 Burmella Godunko, et al. 2021 Burmese amber, Myanmar, mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) B. paucivenosa Godunko, et al. 2021 B. clypeata Godunko, et al. 2021
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