Salmonflies
Pteronarcys californica
The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
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Millcreek on Sep 17, 2015September 17th, 2015, 2:25 pm EDT
These nymphs were identified to genus using Merritt, Cummins and Berg (2008) as well as Buglab's "Key to Western Baetidae". They were keyed to species using Day's "New Genera of Mayflies From California" 1955, http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_d/pubdayw1955p121.pdf where it is described as Paracloeodes abitus (a synonym of Paracloeodes minutus). These were found in the Russian River, CA.
It's found in warm shallow water with a substrate of small gravel with a medium amount of algae attached. It's usually found in September.
The main ways of telling it apart from the other Baetidae are smaller size (3.5 - 4 mm), the claws being half the length of the tarsi and a labium shaped as shown above.
It's found in warm shallow water with a substrate of small gravel with a medium amount of algae attached. It's usually found in September.
The main ways of telling it apart from the other Baetidae are smaller size (3.5 - 4 mm), the claws being half the length of the tarsi and a labium shaped as shown above.
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