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Ephemeroidea
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Ephemeroidea

Ephemeroidea is a superfamily of mayflies. Members of this superfamily are found in most parts of the world with the exception of the Arctic, the Antarctic and Australia.

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3 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Burrowing Mayflies

familyEphemeridae

Pale Burrowers

familyPolymitarcyidae

Palingeniidae

familyPalingeniidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48012.