Overview
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A Family in the Kingdom Animalia.
Taxonomy
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The Family Polymitarcyidae is a member of the Superfamily Ephemeroidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Polymitarcyidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Order: Ephemeroptera
Hyatt & Arms, 1891 - Mayflies
- Suborder: Furcatergalia
- Infraorder: Scapphodonta
- Tusked Burrowing Mayflies
- Superfamily: Ephemeroidea
- a genus of Litter Moths (Herminiinae)
- Family: Polymitarcyidae Banks, 1900 - Pale Burrower Mayflies
- Superfamily: Ephemeroidea
- a genus of Litter Moths (Herminiinae)
- Infraorder: Scapphodonta
- Tusked Burrowing Mayflies
- Suborder: Furcatergalia
- Order: Ephemeroptera
Hyatt & Arms, 1891 - Mayflies
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Polymitarcyidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (2): Campsurinae · Polymitarcyinae
- Genus (5): Campsurus · Ephoron · Polymitarcis · Povilla · Tortopus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 22 species and subspecies in the Family Polymitarcyidae.
Genera
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Campsurus
Ephoron
Polymitarcis
Povilla
Tortopus
At least 7 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Tortopus.
More info about the Genus Tortopus may be found here.
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