Mayfly Species Leucrocuta minerva

Face pale yellow with black markings along anterior margin; no ruddy shading on vertex. Thorax pale lemon yellow; a geminate brown mid-dorsal line on the anterior portion of mesonotum, and two small black dots laterally at base of scutellum. A broad blackish stripe on pleura above the leg bases. Legs pale yellow; fore femora with a median ruddy streak and an apical black longitudinal dash on the ventral edge; other femora with similar dark apical dash, but median band may be absent. Fore tarsus and apical half of fore tibia smoky. Basal tarsal joint 1/4 to 1/6 of second. Wings hyaline; longitudinal veins fine, dark; cross veins heavier, margined in the costal and subcostal spaces, those at bulla with margins sometimes coalescing; veins below bulla and brown cloud on posterior branch of radial sector, as in H. hebe (now a synonym of Leucrocuta hebe) and H. aphrodite (now a synonym of Leucrocuta aphrodite) 3 to 4 costal cross veins before the bulla.

Abdomen pale yellowish white, tergites 8-10 tinged with ruddy brown. The lateral brown markings of the tergites are restricted to a series of lateral dashes or small triangular patches. Sternites unmarked. Forceps and tails pale. Apical projection of penes less prominent than in H. aphrodite.

The pale thorax with dark mid-dorsal line on mesonotum anteriorly, the two dark dots before scutellum, the ruddy median streak on fore femora and the much restricted lateral abdominal markings separate this species from the closely allied H. aphrodite.