The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
Option 1 | Option 2 |
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Antennae situated on each side near anterior margin of eye (sf 19.107) | Antennae not near anterior margins of eyes, situated approximately as close to anterior margin of head capsule as to eyes (sf 19.89) or closer (sf 19.74) |
Abdominal segment 1 without median dorsal hump (sf 19.107) | Abdominal segment 1 almost always with median dorsal hump |
Larvae construct cases of sand (sf 19.21, 19.493) or plant materials (sf 19.20b, 19.20c), with 4-sided cases of plant materials common (sf 19.20a, 19.466) | |
Remaining families: Apataniidae, Beraeidae, Limnephilidae, Molannidae, Odontoceridae, Rossianidae, Sericostomatidae, Thremmatidae, and Uenoidae | |
5 Example Specimens | 5 Example Specimens |
Lepidostomatidae | Go to Couplet 19 |