Mayfly Species Leptophlebia bradleyi (Black Quills)

A dark brown species with yellowish wings; the femora black-ringed.

Head and thorax brown. Legs yellowish brown, with black rings on the apical third of all the femora. Wings hyaline, tinged with yellow. Veins brown. Costal cross veins numerous and distinct; stigmatic cross veins crowded and irregular, and anastomosed to form two rows of cells in the costal space, the outermost row being half the width of the inner one. Entire stigmatic area, and the radial space below it, semi-opaque, greyish.

Abdomen brown, darker at the ends. Tergites 1-8 with a narrow pale mid-dorsal line. On each side of this line are two rows of pale triangular spots, confluent on the basal margin. Ventrally paler, somewhat yellowish; ganglia not marked. Genitalia pale brown. Basal joint of the forceps slowly tapering and sinuately curved; the two small terminal segments dilated internally and subtriangular. Three short terminal joints are present, on one specimen. Penes long, tapering, separated by a V-shaped cleft for three-fourths of their length. Reflexed spur curved, spatulate, acute at the tip, reaching to the level of the bottom of the cleft (see fig. 134).