Caenidae
Family of mayflies
title: "Caenidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mayflies", "insect-families"] description: "Family of mayflies" topic_path: "general/mayflies" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Family of mayflies ::
| image = Caenis.horaria.jpg | image_caption = Caenis horaria | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Caenidae | authority = Ulmer, 1920 | synonyms = Brachycercidae, Coenidae
Caenidae, is a family of mayflies, sometimes called "small squaregill mayflies". Species are found throughout the world in lotic, depositional environments, and they are sprawlers.
Genera
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility includes:
- Aenigmocaenis
- Afrocaenis
- Afrocercus
- Alloretochus
- Amercaenis
- Barnardara
- Brachycercus
- Brasilocaenis
- Caenis
- Caenoculis
- Caenopsella
- Callistellina
- Callistina
- Cercobrachys
- Clypeocaenis
- Insulibrachys
- Irpacaenis
- Kalimaenis
- Latineosus
- Madecocercus
- Niandancus
- Oriobrachys
- Provonshara
- Sparbarus
- Susperatus
- Tasmanocoenis
- Tigrocercus
- Tillyardocaenis
- Trichocaenis
- Wundacaenis
References
References
- "Mayfly: Caenidae Angler's Curses".
- [https://www.gbif.org/species/7869 Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Family Caenidae] (retrieved 7 April 2024)
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