Tiny Baetis mayflies are perhaps the most commonly encountered and imitated by anglers on all American trout streams due to their great abundance, widespread distribution, and trout-friendly emergence habits.
Most physical descriptions on Troutnut are direct or slightly edited quotes from the original scientific sources describing or updating the species, although there may be errors in copying them to this website. Such descriptions aren't always definitive, because species often turn out to be more variable than the original describers observed. In some cases, only a single specimen was described! However, they are useful starting points.
The identity of this species, defined from a single male subimago, cannot at the present time be correctly determined. The character by which this species was distinguished, “an erect conic tubercle upon the front margin of the middle lobe of the mesothorax,” is said by Dr. McDunnough to “occur sporadically in several species very similar in the subimago stage.”