Mayfly Species Paraleptophlebia volitans

A species with pale abdomen marked with purplish brown.

Head and thorax shiny brownish black. Legs dull whitish. Wings hyaline, veins pale. About 16 stigmatic cross veins; simple, slightly curved, not anastomosed. Fore wing narrowly brownish at the extreme base.

Abdomen hyaline white on segments 3-7; tergite 2 dark brown; segments 8-10 dark blackish brown, opaque. Tergites with narrow brown bands on the posterior margins, and irregular purplish brown markings dorsally and laterally on 5 and the apical segments. A series of short, lateral, longitudinal dark dashes above the spiracular line, each on the posterior margin of the tergite. Sternite 2 faintly shaded with brown; the apical sternites lighter brown than the corresponding tergites. Ganglionic patches outlined in ruddy brown. Forceps white. Penes separated for about half their length by a V-shaped notch; rather lyre-shaped in general appearance. The reflexed lobes are short, horse-shoe-shaped at the tip, and not visible from above (see fig. 133).