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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) » Furcatergalia » Pannota » Ephemerelloidea » Little Stout Crawler Mayflies (Leptohyphidae) » Tricorythodes
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something strange going on ? - Tricorythodes
Copyright © 2017 dvoribird

something strange going on ? - Tricorythodes
Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, USA
March 25, 2017
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Contributed by dvoribird on 26 March, 2017 - 8:19am
Last updated 26 March, 2017 - 2:41pm

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… Roger Rohrbeck, 26 March, 2017 - 2:41pm login or register to post comments

Tricorythodes
Hi dvoribird-

I believe this mayfly female imago to be of genus Tricorythodes.

Nothing particularly strange going on here, just a female imago preparing to lay her eggs, hopefully by taking flight to the nearest water, and dropping her eggs on it. The large black sack at the end of her abdomen holds the eggs, which were previously stored within her abdomen.
… Roger Rohrbeck, 26 March, 2017 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh! Thank you for explaining
Oh! Thank you for explaining this! I couldn't figure out what was going on. Thank you !!
… dvoribird, 26 March, 2017 - 2:33pm login or register to post comments

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