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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.
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Mayfly Genus Leucrocuta
The species of this genus are relatively unimportant, but Leucrocuta hebe and Leucrocuta aphrodite may produce fishable hatches. They have the same general biology as Heptagenia.
Specimens of the Mayfly Genus Leucrocuta
3 Female Duns
I found this dun on the same piece of stream as a similar spinner, probably of the same species.
I found Catskill brown trout eagerly surface feeding to this species.
2 Female Spinners
I found this spinner on the same piece of stream as a similar dun, probably of the same species.
2 Male Spinners
4 Nymphs
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- Arbona, Fred Jr. 1989. Mayflies, the Angler, and the Trout. Nick Lyons Books.
- Caucci, Al and Nastasi, Bob. 2004. Hatches II. The Lyons Press.
- Knopp, Malcolm and Robert Cormier. 1997. Mayflies: An Angler's Study of Trout Water Ephemeroptera . The Lyons Press.
Taxonomy
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
» Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
» Class
Insecta (Insects)
» Order
Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)
» Genus Leucrocuta
| Species in Leucrocuta |
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|---|---|---|
| Leucrocuta aphroditePale Evening Dun | 0 | 0 |
| Leucrocuta hebeLittle Yellow Quill | 11 | 58 |
| Leucrocuta juno | 0 | 0 |
| Leucrocuta minerva | 0 | 0 |
6 species (Leucrocuta jewetti, Leucrocuta maculipennis, Leucrocuta petersi, Leucrocuta thetis, Leucrocuta umbratica, and Leucrocuta walshi) aren't included.