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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Damselflies (Zygoptera) » Unidentified Naiads and Exuviae
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Mayfly Nymph Maybe ?
Copyright © 2018 Mardon Erbland

Mayfly Nymph Maybe ?
47.621421 -52.670464 Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
June 14, 2018
Size: 6 mm nose to body rear
Found in a water sample taken using a plastic jar dipped into the water/vegetation near the shore of a small pond. The nymph was under water and swimming during the photos.

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Mayfly Nymph Maybe ? Mayfly Nymph Maybe ?
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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 16 June, 2018 - 11:07am
Last updated 16 January, 2020 - 8:30am

Moved
Moved from Damselflies.
… Tyler Hedlund, 16 January, 2020 - 8:30am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mayflies.
… Roger Rohrbeck, 16 June, 2018 - 12:20pm login or register to post comments

Damselfly
Hi Mardon-

I believe this to be a damselfly nymph. Will leave it to others to take to a lower level ID.
… Roger Rohrbeck, 16 June, 2018 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 16 June, 2018 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

Probably Mayfly
Mayfly or damselfly, but the tails look too thin for damselfly. Not Diptera.
… John F. Carr, 16 June, 2018 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

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