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Male Eurylophella (Chocolate Duns) Mayfly Spinner Pictures



This mayfly was collected from the Teal River on June 4th, 2005 and added to Troutnut.com on May 24th, 2006.

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Posted by Taxon on Jul 10, 2006
Last reply on Mar 7, 2013 by Entoman
Jason-

Your identification appears spot on. You may well have already considered them, but here are three key matches:

1} Genitalia illustrated in Leonard & Leonard p. 125 figure 75, which seems to match the claspers perfectly, and would likely match the penes perfectly as well, were they not a bit damaged
2) Sternites "with four small dots sometimes elongaged into narrow streaks" as described in Leonard & Leonard p. 50
3) "stigmatic area of fore wing milky" as described in Leonard & Leonard p. 50
ReplyThoughts on this identification?
Posted by Troutnut on Jul 10, 2006
I've got several specimens of this small Ephemerellid species, and my best guess is Ephemerella needhami, but I'm still unsure. There are species of Eurylophella with similar stripes whose nymphs were common at the same time and in the same general location, but I didn't do really comprehensive nymph collection.
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