ephemeropteran
English
Etymology
From translingual Ephemeroptera + -an.
Noun
ephemeropteran (plural ephemeropterans)
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, the mayflies.
- 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- All these habitats are species poor: aside from amphipod fauna, assellote isopods, trichopteran, plecopteran and ephemeropteran larvae, erpobdelid leeches and salamander larvae were also found, but no fishes were observed.
See also
extant orders of insects in English
- jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
- cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
- beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
- earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
- flies, dipterans (Diptera)
- webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
- mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
- ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
- true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
- hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
- butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
- mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
- mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
- scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
- megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
- neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
- damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
- orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
- stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
- stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
- booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
- snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
- fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
- strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
- thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
- caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
- zorapterans (Zoraptera)
- silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)