Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Mayfly

Posted by cyprinoid on 02-05-2011 20:54
#1
Norway, 01.05.11.

I have no idea where to start with this one. Fist time I really looked at a mayfly.
About 10mm excluding tails (of which there were two).

Hopefully someone can help me to get genus or maybe even species.

Live specimen here: http://www.flickr...otostream/

Posted by cyprinoid on 02-05-2011 20:55
#2
Wing
Edited by cyprinoid on 02-05-2011 20:55

Posted by atylotus on 02-05-2011 21:41
#3
Ephemeroptera, and it must be genus Epeorus, for it is the only one I know of, whom has two tails

Posted by Tony Irwin on 02-05-2011 21:46
#4
The wing looks very like Leptophlebia marginata, so I think you lost a tail filament - there should be three!

Posted by Tony Irwin on 02-05-2011 21:53
#5
atylotus wrote:
Ephemeroptera, and it must be genus Epeorus, for it is the only one I know of, whom has two tails

Baetidae, Heptageniidae (including Epeorus) and Siphlonuridae all have only two tails - but this wing is not from any of them.

Posted by atylotus on 03-05-2011 10:15
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Tony,
of course you are absolutely right. I looked in Bauernfeind & Humpesch (2001) and indeed many more genera (in the adult stage) have two tails. and the wings look indeed like a Leptophlebiidae. I made a mistake with the nymphal characteristics: the nymph of Epeorus is the only genus with 2 filaments.
Edited by atylotus on 03-05-2011 10:17

Posted by Tony Irwin on 03-05-2011 18:02
#7
Thankfully not all children look like their parents! Grin

Posted by cyprinoid on 04-05-2011 08:01
#8


Thank you both! Smile

Posted by daandrukker on 25-10-2018 10:06
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Leptophlebia marginata is correct, a female imago