**Mayfly Species Drunella doddsii (Western Green Drake)**

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Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

» Class Insecta (Insects)

» Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)

» Family Ephemerellidae (Hendricksons, Sulphurs, PMDs, BWOs)

» Genus Drunella (Blue-Winged Olives)

» Species doddsii (Western Green Drake)

Common Names

Match	Common Name
	Western Green Drake
	Great Lead-Wing Olive Drake
	Lead-Winged Olive
	Great Red Spinner
	Green Drake

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This secondary species creates the Western Green Drake hatch together with Drunella grandis. There are very few differences between the habits of these two species, and they are almost always discussed together in fly fishing books, so for most of the characteristics of doddsii I refer you to the Drunella grandis page.

Where & When

Region: West

Fred Arbona writes that doddsii is only found in "cold, fast-flowing sections of freestone rivers." This is the only important difference I have found between it and Drunella grandis, which exists in a wide variety of habitats.

1 Mayfly Specimen in the Species Drunella doddsii:

Drunella doddsii (Western Green Drake) Mayfly Dun

View 7 PicturesI still haven't got my good camera gear set up, but I wanted to get my first Alaskan bug specimen online, so I photographed this one with my point+shoot in the raft.

Region: Alaska

Collected Jul 8, 2007

Added Jul 19, 2007

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