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WystoneAugust 12th, 2007, 7:57 am
Posts: 1Identication help? Center Maine region ( NW of Bangor). Picture taken early July.
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MartinlfAugust 12th, 2007, 8:11 am
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Posts: 3213		I'll leave the ID to the professionals, but great photo and measurement idea.
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TaxonAugust 12th, 2007, 12:06 pm
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Male spinner. Isonychia ?

Yes, it would appear to be. There are (at least) three Isonychia species recorded from Maine, I. bicolor, I. georgiae, and I. obscura. Although the greatest statistical likelihood would be I. bicolor, reliable identification to species requires microscopic examination of male imago genitalia.

Luckily, we have a mayfly entomologist actively participating on this forum, who is qualified to make such an identification, if sent a preserved specimen. See this thread.
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Roger Rohrbeck
www.FlyfishingEntomology.com
JADAugust 12th, 2007, 5:49 pm
Alexandria Pa

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If I could taste it, I could tell you :) nice picture.

JaD


They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,

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