The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
Some notes from identifying this specimen under the microscope:
1. The hind wing has three longitudinal veins, but the third is faint, short (about half the length of the wing), and close to the wing margin.
2. Then antenna is brown fading into white at the tip, and the base is ringed with white.
3. The joints of the tarsal segments on the middle and hind leg have fine black markings.
It was also collected in association with a female spinner.
This mayfly was collected from Silver Creek in Idaho on September 4th, 2020 and added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on September 18th, 2020.