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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) » Pisciforma » Heptagenioidea » Flatheaded Mayflies (Heptageniidae) » Nixe » Nixe inconspicua
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Heptageniidae (Flatheaded Mayfly) - Nixe inconspicua - female
Copyright © 2010 MJ Hatfield

Heptageniidae (Flatheaded Mayfly) - Nixe inconspicua - Female
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 16, 2010
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 30 December, 2010 - 6:42pm
Last updated 1 January, 2019 - 9:40am

Moved
Moved from Flatheaded Mayflies.
… Roger Rohrbeck, 7 January, 2015 - 2:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mayflies.
… MJ Hatfield, 31 December, 2010 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

Heptageniidae
MJ,

This appears to be a Heptageniidae male imago. Will attempt to identify it further as time allows.
… Roger Rohrbeck, 31 December, 2010 - 8:16am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
and no hurry.
… MJ Hatfield, 31 December, 2010 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

 
Nixe inconspicua
MJ-

When you said no hurry, I doubt you were expecting it to take over 4 years for me to re-visit the id. In any event, I now believe this female imago to be Nixe inconspicua.
… Roger Rohrbeck, 7 January, 2015 - 2:24am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you.
How time flies!!
… MJ Hatfield, 27 July, 2018 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

 
Image
It has been suggested that this might be the same species
… John R. Maxwell, 27 July, 2018 - 9:29am login or register to post comments

 
Might be
Might be, or might even be a different genus. Best left placed in the Guide at family level.
… Roger Rohrbeck, 27 July, 2018 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Great.
Where does the time go? When we're having fun.
Thank you.
… MJ Hatfield, 7 January, 2015 - 6:56am login or register to post comments

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