Troutnut Forum > Specimen Discussion > Hind wings?
The Specimen
Baetidae (Blue-Winged Olives) Mayfly Dun
View 8 PicturesThis dun of a fairly large Baetidae species was one of only a couple I saw all evening.
View 8 PicturesThis dun of a fairly large Baetidae species was one of only a couple I saw all evening.Region: Northeast
Collected Aug 24, 2006
Added Aug 27, 2006
The Discussion
| Taxon | August 28th, 2006, 12:55 am | |
| Mercer Island, WA Posts: 485 | Jason- My belief is that Plauditus, Pseudocloeon, and Procloeon are the Baetids absent hind wings, whereas Centroptilum (among the others) has minute hind wings. If I am correct, then given the choice you posed, that would make your specimen Centroptilum. This is (of course) strictly based on my having successfully digested the "available literature", and as I remember, there was a bit of inconsistency between authors in that area, so I probably chose to believe whichever one (or ones) I believed to have more credibility. Does any of this sound familiar? | |
| Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com | ||
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| Troutnut | August 28th, 2006, 1:20 am | |
| Fairbanks, AK Posts: 1115 | If I'm reading the key in Merritt & Cummins correctly, Procloeon can have hind wings present or absent. I think the angling literature is based on older sources, and the species were shuffled around a lot since the publication of most of those books. I tried to find a paper on Procloeon identification on the FAMU site without any luck. I guess I'll have to spend some time in the Cornell library this winter for this one. | |
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