You are welcome. Even though most (if not all) of the questions you posed are quite obviously rhetorical in nature, your punishment for having voiced them will be my answering them as though they were serious.
Roger,
I love ya man! My first wife used to tell folks, "He always makes it sound like he's just joking, but he's dead serious...He's just hedging his bets."
I thank you again and it's clear as mud! I promise you I will spend a little time on it before I "bother" you with any more of my serious questions? ;)
I have a nephew who has a form of aspergers. Even though he is quiet bright and a math wiz-kid he is literally incapable of knowing when uncle Spence is pulling his leg...As you might expect, knowing me as you do from this forum, I have a hard time always being "straight" and I'm very careful to make sure I haven't left him up in the air about something.
So, just to make sure you "got it", my joke about knowing the bugs on a first name basis was something like Joe, Jim, Bob, & Tony, and not E dorothea, dorothea. :)
I think us half-crazed anglers with their toes dangling ever so slightly in the entomological world must drive you "bug boys" crazy...Like finger nails across a chalk board.
I do get it that everything is somewhat in flux...I understand this really. I guess, having a dutch-german background, I just prefer my corners more square. I should probably just sit back and enjoy the ride...It's my problem really, not science's...verstehen?
Spence
Thanks again for your link to the clasifacation of the L recurvata...So. All our mayflies would basically have the same categories through the "Order" and everything below that is more and more descriptive of the particular bug. Its charateristics as opposed to other species.