Mayflies Continued

Latin to Common Name; click here to see common to latin

Order - Family - Genus (subgenus) - Species

Mayflies: Ephemeroptera

Crawlers: Ephemerellidae, Leptophlebiidae, Tricorythidae, Caenidae, Baetiscidae

The Crawlers live in streams in varied speeds of water, most live amongst vegetation along a gravel floor. Their body are not made to be good swimmers but rather to crawl under leaf debris and rubble.

  1. Ephemerella lata (Ephemerallidae drunella)
    a. Blue-Wing Olive
  2. Ephemerella subvaria (Ephemerallidae ephemerella)
    a. Hendrickson
    b. Red Quill
    c. Lady Beaverkill
  3. Ephemerella invaria & rotunda (Ephemerallidae ephemeralla)
    a. Dark Hendrickson (rotunda)
    b. Red Quill (rotunda)
    c. Sulphur Pale Evening dun (invaria)
  4. Ephemeralla dorothea (Ephemerallidae ephemerella)
    a. Pale Evening Dun
    b. Sulphur
  5. Ephemerella infrequens & inermis (Ephemerallidae ephemerella)
    a. Pale Morning Dun
  6. Ephemerella cornuta (Ephemerallidae drunella)
    a. Blue-Wing Olive
  7. Ephemerella glacialis, grandis, dooddsi (Ephemerallidae drunella)
    a. Western Green Drake
  8. Ephemerella flavilinea (Ephemerallidae drunella)
    a. Slate-Winged Olive
  9. Ephemerella attenuata (Ephemerallidae attenella)
    a. Blue-Winged Olive
  10. Trcorythidae tricorythodes
    a. Trico


Clingers: Heptageniidae

The Clingers are found in fast high-oxygen riffles. Their bodies and heads are flat, the head is mostly larger then the body making them very easy to recognize.

  1. Stenonema fuscum (heptageniidae)
    a. Ginger Quill
    b. Sand Drake
  2. Stenonema vicarium (heptageniidae)
    a. March Brown
  3. Stenonema ithaca & interpunctatum (heptageniidae)
    a. Light Cahill
    b. Cahill
    c. Ginger Quill
  4. Epeorus pleuralis (heptageniidae)
    a. Quill Gordon
    b. Iron Dun
  5. Heptagenia (heptageniidae)
    a. Heptagenia

Burrowers:Ephemeridae, Potamanthidae, Polymitarcyidae

Burrowers are mostly found in silt and mud in slow pools and eddies, and in the muck in our lakes and ponds. The gills our exagarated to take oxygen from stagnit water. Thier bodies are snake like and to enable them to slip into burrowers.
  1. Ephemera guttulata (Ephemeridae)
    a. Green Drake
    b. Coffin Fly
  2. Ephemera varia (Ephemeridae)
    a. Yellow Drake
    b. Yellow Dun
    c. White Dun
  3. Ephemera simulans (Ephemeridae)
    a. March Brown
    b. Brown Drake
  4. Hexagenia limbata (Ephemeridae)
    a. Michigan Caddis
    b. Hex
  5. Litobrancha recurvata (Ephemeridae)
    a. Dark Green Drake
  6. Potamanthus distinctus (Potamanthidae)
    a. Golden Drake
    b. Evening Dun
    c. Yellow Drake
  7. Ephoron (Polymitarcyidae)
    a. White Fly

Swimmers:Baetidae, Siphlonuridae, Metretopodidae

The Swimmers have adapted to many waters. The larger swimmer will mostly live in the swifter water in our rivers and stream while the smaller one you can find in side pools and shallow eddies. Also easy to indentify because of their slender bodies which allow to swim like dolphins in the water, darting around quickly to hold thier ground in fast waters.

  1. Genus Baetis 62 species (family Baetidae)
    a. Blue-Winged Olive (baetis species)
  2. Genus Pseudocloeon & Cloeon 23 species (Baetidae)
    a. Blue-Winged Olive
  3. Genus Callibaetis 28 species (Baetidae)
    a. Callibaetis
  4. Isonychia bicolor (Siphlonuridae)
    a. Leadwing Coachmen
    b. Mahogany Dun
    c. Slate Drake
  5. Isonychia sadleri (Siphlonuridae)
    a. Mahogany Dun
    b. Mahogany Drake

Common to Latin:

  1. Blue-Winged Olive:
    a. Ephemerella lata (Ephemerallidae drunella)
    b. Ephemerella cornuta (Ephemerallidae drunella)
    c. Ephemerella attenuata (Ephemerallidae attenella)
    d. Genus Baetis 62 species (Baetidae)
    - all species*

    e. Genus Pseudocloeon & Cloeon 23 species (Baetidae)
    - all species
  2. March Brown:
    a. Stenonema vicarium (Heptageniidae)*
    b. Ephemera simulans (Heptageniidae)
  3. Hendrickson:
    a. Ephemerella Subvaria (Ephemerallidae ephemerella)*
  4. Red Quill:
    a. Ephemerella Subvaria (Ephemerallidae ephemerella)
    b. Ephemeralla invaria & rotunda (Ephemerallidae ephemeralla)*
  5. Green Drake:
    a. Ephemera guttulata (Heptageniidae)*
  6. Trico:
    a. Trcorythidae tricorythodes*
  7. Western Green Drake:
    a. Ephemerella glacialis, grandis, dooddsi (Ephemerallidae drunella)*
  8. Slate-Winged Olive:
    a. Ephemerella flavilinea (Ephemerallidae drunella)*
  9. Pale Morning Dun
    a. Ephemerella infrequens & inermis (Ephemerallidae ephemerella)
  10. Ginger Quill
    a. Stenonema fuscum (Heptageniidae)
  11. Cahill
    a. Stenonema ithaca & interpunctatum (Heptageniidae)
  12. Quill Gordon
    a. Epeorus pleuralis (Heptageniidae)
    13. Yellow Drake or Dun
    a. Ephemera varia (Heptageniidae)
  13. Hexagenia:
    a. Hexagenia limbata (Heptageniidae)
  14. Callibaetis:
    a. Genus Callibaetis 28 species (Baetidae)
  15. Dark Green Drake:
    a. Litobrancha recurvata (Heptageniidae)
  16. Leadwing Coachmen
    a. Isonychia bicolor (Siphlonuridae)
  17. Mahogany Dun
    a. Isonychia bicolor (Siphlonuridae)
    b. Isonychia sadleri (Siphlonuridae)