**Mayfly Species Leptophlebia cupida (Borcher Drake)**

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Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

» Class Insecta (Insects)

» Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)

» Family Leptophlebiidae (Blue Quills and Mahogany Duns)

» Genus Leptophlebia (Black Quills and Blue Quills)

» Species cupida (Borcher Drake)

Common Names

Match	Common Name
	Borcher Drake
	Black Quill
	Whirling Dun
	Black Gnat
	Western Black Quill
	Iron Blue Dun
	Blue Dun
	Early Brown Spinner
	Early Brown Quill
	Early Black Quill
	Dark Hendrickson

Pictures Below ↓

This is page 3 of specimens of Leptophlebia cupida. Visit the main Leptophlebia cupida page for:

The behavior and habitat of Leptophlebia cupida.

Pictures of 17 Mayfly Specimens in the Species Leptophlebia cupida:

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Leptophlebia cupida (Borcher Drake) Mayfly Nymph

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Collected January 12, 2004 from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

Female Leptophlebia cupida (Borcher Drake) Mayfly Spinner

View 3 PicturesI'm not positive of the collection date on this one, so I'm guessing.

Collected May 20, 2004 from unknown in Wisconsin
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

Female Leptophlebia cupida (Borcher Drake) Mayfly Spinner

View 2 PicturesThis large female Leptophlebia spinner emerged from a nymph I was holding in my room one night. I didn't have time to photograph her and she molted into a spinner before I was home from work in the evening. So here she is as a spinner. I wish I had more photos at more angles, but she flew off and I couldn't find her.

Collected May 18, 2004 from unknown in Wisconsin
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

Female Leptophlebia cupida (Borcher Drake) Mayfly Spinner

View 3 PicturesI'm not positive of the collection date on this one, so I'm guessing.

Collected May 20, 2004 from unknown in Wisconsin
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

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Jargon Defined:

Nymph: The juvenile, underwater stages of mayflies, stoneflies, dragonflies, and damselflies and other aquatic insects whose juvenile stages are covered by hard exoskeletons. The word can also refer to the fishing flies which imitate these creatures, in which case it is used as a blanket term for flies imitating any underwater stage of an invertebrate (except for crayfish and leeches).

Spinner: There are two winged stages of adult mayflies. They emerge from the water as duns, molt on land (usually) into their fully mature stage, spinners. As spinners, they mate, lay eggs, and die.

Useful References:

Arbona, Fred Jr. 1989. Mayflies, the Angler, and the Trout. Nick Lyons Books.

Knopp, Malcolm and Robert Cormier. 1997. Mayflies: An Angler's Study of Trout Water Ephemeroptera . The Lyons Press.

Leonard, Justin W. and Fannie A. Leonard. 1962. Mayflies of Michigan Trout Streams. Cranbrook Institute of Science.

Schwiebert, Ernest G. 1955. Matching the Hatch. MacMillan Publishing Company.

Swisher, Doug and Carl Richards. 2000. Selective Trout. The Lyons Press.