Mayfly Species Paraleptophlebia moerens

This is another small, clear-winged species with whitish, cross-lined abdomen. Head and thorax dark brown above. Legs pale. Wings whitish with a milky stigmatic area covering costal and subcostal interspaces. Costal cross veins almost wholly obsolete even in the stigmatic area where their faint vestiges are numerous, simple, and considerably aslant.

Abdomen brown on the ends; segments whitish on 3 to 6; less so on 2 and 7. The dorsal apical cross-bands of the white segments are well marked, as are also the lateral, longitudinal, spiracular lines which meet them at the hind angle of the segments. Forceps with a large basal lobe-like dilatation of its first segment. Penes separated for half their length by an oval notch, the aperture of which is closed by a lobe-like prolongation inward of their distal ends. Outer angle of the tips broadly rounded. The proximal portion of its margin is prolonged forward in an incurved spine; attached to this spine is the usual reflexed spur which is very slender (see fig. 133). Tails white.