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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Mesonotal sclerites each about as long as wide (sf 19.294) | Mesonotal sclerites each wider than long (sf 19.295) |
Case of leaf pieces with wide flanges at each side of depressed tube (sf 19.511a, 19.511b) | Case straight, made irregularly of small pieces of leaves and bark |
Northwest | Minnesota |
1 Example SpecimenThis one was surprisingly straightforward to identify. The lack of a sclerite at the base of the lateral hump narrows the field quite a bit, and the other options followed fairly obvious characteristics to Clostoeca, which only has one species, Clostoeca disjuncta.
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Clostoeca Species Clostoeca disjuncta | Chilostigma Species Chilostigma itascae No further information about this genus is available on Troutnut.com at this time. |