Alexandrinia

Alexandrinia
Temporal range: Early Permian–Upper Permian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
(unranked): Panephemeroptera
(unranked): Ephemerida
(unranked): †Permoplectoptera
Family: †Protereismatidae
Genus: †Alexandrinia
Sinitshenkova & Vassilenko, 2012
Type species
Alexandrinia gigantea
Sinitshenkova & Vassilenko, 2012
Species
  • Alexandrinia directa (Carpenter, 1979)
  • Alexandrinia gigantea Sinitshenkova & Vassilenko, 2012
  • Alexandrinia ipsa Sinitshenkova, 2013
  • Alexandrinia vitta Sinitshenkova, 2013

Alexandrinia is an extinct genus of stem-group mayflies which existed in what is now Russia and the United States during the Permian period. It was described by N. D. Sinitshenkova and D. V. Vassilenko in 2012, and contains four species: A. gigantea, A. directa,[1] A. ipsa and A. vitta.[2] The genus is named in honor of Russian entomologist Alexandr Rasnitsyn.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Sinitshenkova, N. D.; Vassilenko, D. V. (2012). "The latest record of mayflies of the family Protereismatidae Sellards (Ephemerida = Ephemeroptera) and a new species of the family Misthodotidae in the Upper Permian of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 46 (1): 61–65. doi:10.1134/S0031030112010121.
  2. ^ Sinitshenkova, N. D. (2013). "New mayflies (Insecta: Ephemerida = Ephemeroptera) from the Upper Permian locality of Isady, Northern European Russia". Paleontological Journal. 47 (2): 162–165. doi:10.1134/S0031030113020135. S2CID 84551200.
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