Genus Stenacron

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Mayfly, downtown Philadelphia - Stenacron

flatheaded mayfly - Stenacron interpunctatum - female

Stenacron interpunctatum / frontale ♂ - Stenacron - male

Stenacron candidum ♂ reared sample - Stenacron candidum - male

genus Stenacron? - Stenacron interpunctatum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Ephemeroptera (Mayflies)

Suborder Pisciforma

Superfamily Heptagenioidea

Family Heptageniidae (Flatheaded Mayflies)

Genus Stenacron

Explanation of Names

Stenacron Jensen 1974

Numbers

7 spp. in the genus, all in our area(1)(2)

Identification

The dark dash connecting cross-veins in the third space from the costal margin is a standard way of separating Stenacron adults from the very similar members of Maccaffertium. --Lloyd Gonzales

Range

all spp. but one in e. NA(1)

Works Cited

1.	Mayfly Central

2.	Barber-James H., Sartori M., Gattolliat J-L., Webb J. (2013) World checklist of freshwater Ephemeroptera species

Contributed by tom murray on 22 May, 2006 - 8:12pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 1 February, 2014 - 4:18pm

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