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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Compound eyes of male touching or nearly touching dorsally (similar to source fig 13.219) | Compound eyes of male separated dorsally by twice the width of median ocellus |
Foretarsi three times the length of foretibiae | Foretarsi twice the length of foretibiae |
Abdomen of female not noticeably long and slender, and posterior margin of sternite 9 evenly convex without a median notch | Abdomen of female distinctly long and slender, and posterior margin of sternite 9 with median notch (source fig 13.191) |
Rare species found in sand-dominated rivers | |
2 Example Specimens | |
Metretopodidae | Pseudironidae Species Pseudiron centralis |