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.
In 8 records from GBIF, adults of this species have been collected during July (63%), June (13%), August (13%), and September (13%).
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.
A pale species; penes with an erect apical lobe and two pairs of median spines, also small paired spines near tip of the longer of these.
Head pale; a few slight dark dots on clypeus. Thorax light brown; prothorax tinged with smoky posteriorly. Legs pale; no dark markings at bases of coxae or femora. Fore femora and tibiae tinged with black at apices; basal fore tarsal joint 1/6 as long as the second. Wings vitreous; venation colorless. Abdomen pale hyaline; tergites tinged with smoky along the posterior margins, giving the appearance of faint bands. Third joint of forceps considerably longer than the fourth joint, these two together as long as or longer than the second joint.
The colorless veins and the long third joint of the forceps would seem to ally this species with the inconspicua-lucidipennis (now synonyms of Nixe inconspicua - Nixe lucidpennis) group, but the penes are different from others of this group, bearing a superficial resemblance (according to the published figure reproduced in fig. 96) to the maculipennis (now a synonym of Leucrocuta maculipennis) group.