Keyed to species using
Hobbs Keys to Orconectes and confirmed with examination of the gonopods of a male caught in same location with female. Also supplemented Hobbs Keys with J.F. Fitzpatrick's paper on the Orconectes genus (
The Ohio Journal of Science, Vol. 67, No. 3, May 1967)
Males and females are essentially identical except for genitalia.
Sorry about the photo quality ... I tried to sharpen the image some.