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The Specimen
Paraleptophlebia mollis (Blue Quill) Mayfly Dun
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View 6 PicturesRegion: Upper Midwest
Collected Jun 8, 2005
Added May 26, 2006
The Discussion
| Troutnut | July 21st, 2006, 12:25 am | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1115 | I'm not sure why I had this specimen in the Baetidae to begin with. The eyes aren't turbinate and the hind wings are fairly large. I'm going to guess Paraleptophlebia at a glance, but I should come back to this one later. Any thoughts? It's a pity the pictures are so fuzzy and dust-spotted up close. I took this picture before I really learned how to use and maintain my Canon 20D. | |
| Jason Neuswanger The Troutnut | ||
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| Taxon | July 21st, 2006, 4:22 am | |
| Mercer Island, WA Posts: 485 | Jason- The claspers certainly look like those of Paraleptophlebia. Have you got a higher resolution photo of the penes? When I blow up the photo that shows them, it distorts too much to see them clearly.  | |
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| Troutnut | July 21st, 2006, 8:24 am | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1115 | Sorry, I don't have a better photo. The sensor resolution isn't the issue on these -- it's the fact that I shot them all at f/32 to get a large depth of field, because at the time I didn't realize how much the diffraction caused by the narrow aperture was spoiling the pictures. The resolution allowed by the lens at that aperture isn't very good. | |
| Jason Neuswanger The Troutnut | ||
| Taxon | July 22nd, 2006, 3:00 am | |
| Mercer Island, WA Posts: 485 | Jason- Likely Paraleptophlebia mollis. See CP VII in Hatches II. | |
| Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com | ||
| Troutnut | July 22nd, 2006, 12:36 pm | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1115 | My copy of Hatches II is packed away in boxes like most of the rest of my stuff until August, but the date and general appearance seem right. I don't know how to tell mollis apart from strigula and guttata, which often hatch together with it, but I'll tentatively put this specimen in mollis for now. | |
| Jason Neuswanger The Troutnut | ||
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