Artistic view of a Male Pteronarcys californica (Pteronarcyidae) (Giant Salmonfly) Stonefly Adult from the Gallatin River in Montana

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The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.

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Lateral view of a Psychodidae True Fly Larva from Mystery Creek #308 in Washington

This wild-looking little thing completely puzzled me. At first I was thinking beetle or month larva, until I got a look at the pictures on the computer screen. I made a couple of incorrect guesses before entomologist Greg Courtney pointed me in the right direction with Psychodidae. He suggested a possible genus of Thornburghiella, but could not rule out some other members of the tribe Pericomini.

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Paracloeodes minutus

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Millcreek on Sep 17, 2015September 17th, 2015, 2:25 pm EDT

These nymphs were identified to genus using Merritt, Cummins and Berg (2008) as well as Buglab's "Key to Western Baetidae". They were keyed to species using Day's "New Genera of Mayflies From California" 1955, http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_d/pubdayw1955p121.pdf where it is described as Paracloeodes abitus (a synonym of Paracloeodes minutus). These were found in the Russian River, CA.

It's found in warm shallow water with a substrate of small gravel with a medium amount of algae attached. It's usually found in September.

The main ways of telling it apart from the other Baetidae are smaller size (3.5 - 4 mm), the claws being half the length of the tarsi and a labium shaped as shown above.

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