Schistonota
English: Mayflies; Shadflies; Fishflies; Up-winged flies.
Genera: 400; 3000 species; 42 families.
Clades: Ephemeroptera; Paleoptera; Insecta; Animals.
Habitat: clean, unpolluted waters.
Zoology
Schistonota are aquatic insects. They have ancestral traits, like long tails and wings that do not fold flat over the abdomen. Their immature stages are aquatic fresh water forms are called "naiads" or "nymphs". They are unique wirth a fully winged terrestrial preadult stage, the subimago, which moults into a sexually mature adult, the imago.
Families
•• Superfamily Baetoidea
Siphlonuridae
Baetidae
Oniscigastridae
Ameletopsidae
Ametropodidae
•• Superfamily Heptagenioidea
Coloburiscidae
Oligoneuriidae
Isonychiidae
Heptageniidae
•• Superfamily Leptophlebioidea
Leptophlebiidae
•• Superfamily Ephemeroidea
Behningiidae
Potamanthidae
Euthyplociidae
Polymitarcyidae
Ephemeridae
Palingeniidae