The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
I thought myops and neglectus had the stripe too?
Are they misidentified here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/126562/bgimage ?
Is there a good key to species for them?
I was going to ask you how you were differentiating distinctus from the other two.
From the examples I've seen which are very few this one has a much more yellow tinge to the forewing than the other two, but that could be due to lighting etc.
A. neglectus is a much smaller critter and its spots aren't so large as to appear as stripes. Also, I don't believe it lives in PA.
Can you cite your source...?
Hi Bruce,
I did. You must have missed it filtering through all the descriptions and Latin!:) It's a great point you raise though, and I try to remember to put the common names in parenthesis next to the Latin. The problem is I usually only do it once at the names first mention because it gets too cumbersome to keep doing it through the rest of the thread.
BTW - all the species mentioned here are called Golden Drakes as well as a few other names.