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Little Slate-Winged Olive Quills

Scientific Names

Like most common names, "Little Slate-Winged Olive Quill" can refer to more than one taxon. For more detail click through to the scientific names.

Mayfly Species Heterocloeon anoka

These are very rarely called Little Slate-Winged Olive Quills.
This tiny Midwestern species may produce fishable hatches becasue it is so extremely abundant. It appears in most books under the former name Pseudocloeon anoka.

Read the Procloeon page for more information which is probably applicable to this similar species.

Mayfly Species Plauditus punctiventris

These are very rarely called Little Slate-Winged Olive Quills.
This species produces very strong hatches on fertile Western spring creeks. They are extremely small mayflies but may be extremely numerous.
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