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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) » Furcatergalia » Scapphodonta » Ephemeroidea » Pale Burrower Mayflies (Polymitarcyidae) » White Flies (Ephoron) » White Fly (Ephoron leukon)
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mayflies? - Ephoron leukon - male
Copyright © 2011 Anita Gould

mayflies? - Ephoron leukon - Male
Bainbridge, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 14, 2007
Huge swarm of these down by the Susquehanna River bank at night. They are able to fold their wings, but they sure look like mayflies rather than stoneflies or somesuch. Can they be IDed to species or genus?

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Contributed by Anita Gould on 9 January, 2011 - 5:00pm
Last updated 10 January, 2011 - 7:06pm

Moved
Moved from Mayflies.
… Brady Richards, 10 January, 2011 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

I don't think they're "folding" their wings...
I think you caught them in the process of emerging from the subimago stage (it looks to me as if the wings are still "caught" in the old exoskeleton).
… Ken Wolgemuth, 9 January, 2011 - 5:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Aha!
Bravo, thank you! Now all we need is an ID ...
… Anita Gould, 9 January, 2011 - 6:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 9 January, 2011 - 5:09pm login or register to post comments

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