Mayfly Species Paraleptophlebia vaciva

This is a graceful black and white species with faintly tinted wings. Head, thorax, front coxae, and the end segments of the abdomen are shining brownish black. Fore legs tawny, with touches of brown on trochanter, knees, and both ends of tarsi. Other legs whitish with a touch of brown at the knees and tips of tarsi. Wings sub-hyaline, with the long veins of the costal strip brown as are also the widely spaced and regular cross veins of the stigmatic area.

Abdomen strikingly bicolored. Segment 1 black, 2 to 7 translucent white with conspicuous brown marks on the ganglia beneath and with faint mid-dorsal clouds above; these become darker on the 6th segment and spread diffusely over more than half of the 7th. Segments 8 to 10 are blackish above and brownish beneath. Forceps pale brown. Penes long, separated by a narrow cleft, tapering in the basal half, then irregularly cylindric, bearing externally a visor-like backwardly-directed barb half their own length from the tip (see fig. 133). Tails whitish.