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Stream Mayfly? - Stenacron interpunctatum

Stream Mayfly? - Stenacron interpunctatum
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 21, 2006
Size: 12mm

Heptageniidae: Stenacron interpunctatum
I think this is correct - the dark dash at the mid front of the wing, and color are very suggestive.

 
Subimago?
I wonder if you can please indicate, if you can tell anyway, whether the individual is a full adult (imago), or a subimago ('adult' that has yet to go through its final molt)? I'd be curious of the answer on any and all of our mayfly images; or, please indicate how one can tell the difference. Thank you.

 
The easy way
is that the wings are more opaque (covered with lots of anti-wetting hairs to help escape from the water) in the subimago than the imago (translucent wings), and the imago the genitalia are fully formed (best for males, this is a female), and the colors are brighter. It helps to have seen both stages, and from a photo I'm not always sure which stage it is. I think this is a subimago because the hindwing looks opaque, but the imago has a very similar bright yellow color, just slightly more transparent. Or it could be an imago.

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