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Ephoron Leukon? - White Fly - Ephoron leukon
Copyright © 2016 Lane Baguss

Ephoron Leukon? - White Fly - Ephoron leukon
Coon Rapids Dam, Coon Rapids County, Minnesota, USA
July 21, 2015
Based off of the tusk key I found in this paper I narrowed it down to Ephoron.

http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_b/pubbaey1995p377.pdf

Looking further into species, leukon appears to be the only Ephoron species found in the MN area. Would this be a fair judgement to say it is leukon?

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Contributed by Lane Baguss on 17 January, 2016 - 11:49am
Last updated 18 January, 2016 - 8:09pm

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… Roger Rohrbeck, 18 January, 2016 - 8:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
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Mayfly Larva? - Higher Quality Upload Options?
If you have a high quality image, you can always crop out a blow-up of the tusks, in order to show that feature better and then add that image to this one, as long as the file size is under 1MB.
Here is a clickable link to your PDF document: Ephemeroptera tusks and their evolution
Good Luck!
… Bob Biagi, 17 January, 2016 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh duh...haha
Thanks for the suggestion!
… Lane Baguss, 17 January, 2016 - 3:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice Job!
Hey, I forgot to say that you might want to consider loading an image of the whole bug; so we can see it in it's entirety.
Also, do you have a somewhat accurate body length, to edit in and put into that field on each image. Thanks!
… Bob Biagi, 18 January, 2016 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

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