Insect Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)

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Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

» Class Insecta (Insects)

» Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)

Family in Ephemeroptera
AmeletidaeBrown Duns	9	38
BaetidaeBlue-Winged Olives	75	307
BaetiscidaeArmored Mayflies	25	128
CaenidaeAngler's Curses	11	30
EphemerellidaeHendricksons, Sulphurs, PMDs, BWOs	206	921
EphemeridaeHexes and Big Drakes	52	292
HeptageniidaeMarch Browns, Cahills, Quill Gordons	165	794
IsonychiidaeSlate Drakes	20	105
LeptohyphidaeTricos	6	31
LeptophlebiidaeBlue Quills & Mahogany Duns	55	232
MetretopodidaePseudo-Gray Drakes	11	39
Neoephemeridae	1	7
PolymitarcyidaeWhite Flies	0	1
PotamanthidaeGolden Drakes	0	0
SiphlonuridaeGray Drakes	15	55

8 families

(Acanthametropodidae, Ametropodidae, Arthropleidae, Behningiidae, Euthyplociidae, Oligoneuriidae, Palingeniidae, Pseudironidae)

aren't included.

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This is page 50 of specimens of Ephemeroptera. Visit the main Ephemeroptera page for:

• The behavior and habitat of Ephemeroptera.
• 67 underwater pictures of Ephemeroptera.
• 35 streamside pictures of Ephemeroptera.

Pictures of 657 Mayfly Specimens:

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Hexagenia limbata (Hex) Mayfly Dun View 2 PicturesThis species is very abundant in Flathead and Whitefish Lakes with a smaller population in lakes of the Swan River Drainage, and a few in Lake McDonald in Glacier Park. This species usually emerges along with Ephemera simulans.

Collected July 31, 2010 from Flathead Lake in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 29, 2011

Female Drunella spinifera (Western Slate Olive Dun) Western Slate Olive Dun Dun View 2 Pictures

Collected July 9, 2007 from Fern Creek in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 29, 2011

Male Drunella spinifera (Western Slate Olive Dun) Western Slate Olive Dun Spinner View 2 Pictures

Collected July 9, 2007 from Fern Creek in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 29, 2011

Epeorus vitreus (Sulphur) Mayfly Nymph View 3 PicturesKey features I discerned with a microscope include that the femoral flange is sharp, and the first gill is not extended.

Collected February 7, 2004 from unknown in Wisconsin
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

Epeorus vitreus (Sulphur) Mayfly Nymph View 2 PicturesKey features I discerned with a microscope include that the femoral flange is blunt (again, given the other features and location, I probably misread this one), postero-lateral (Lateral: To the side.) spines with the anterior (Anterior: Toward the front of an organism's body. The phrase "anterior to" means "in front of.") longer, and the first gill is not extended.

Collected February 7, 2004 from unknown in Wisconsin
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

Female Ephemerella tibialis (Small Western Dark Hendrickson) Mayfly Dun View 1 Pictures

Collected September 7, 2007 from Crazy Beaver Spring in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on July 2, 2011

Ameletus (Brown Duns) Mayfly Nymph View 2 Pictures

Collected March 5, 2005 from the Flathead River-lower in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 28, 2011

Cinygmula (Dark Red Quills) Mayfly Dun View 1 Pictures

Collected April 29, 2006 from Boiling Springs Creek in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 28, 2011

Rhithrogena Mayfly Nymph View 1 Pictures

Collected May 12, 2005 from Hungry Horse Creek in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 28, 2011

Paraleptophlebia (Blue Quills & Mahogany Duns) Mayfly Dun View 3 Pictures

Collected June 16, 2005 from the Vermillion River in Montana
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on June 27, 2011

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