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Big-eyed mayfly - Stenacron carolina

Big-eyed mayfly - Stenacron carolina
Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada
July 24, 2010
Size: 8 mm body
Attracted to bug light

Moved
Moved from Stenacron.

Stenacron carolina
This is a (Stenacron carolina). It is the only one in the genus with the compound eyes so wide spread. And it has lots of cross veins in the lower area of the forewing. This one came from a dark substrate in a stream that is why it is darker than most commonly seen.


Mack.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Stenacron
Chris-

This mayfly is a male imago of family Heptageniidae and genus Stenacron, probably S. interpunctatum.

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