Mayfly: Female, Profile

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)

Family:

Mayfly (Baetidae)

Species:

Mayfly (Cloeon cf paradieniense)

This Photo:

Female, Profile

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
This female was ~6mm long, with 10mm long tail cerci, found dead. Notice it has no hind wings (a species trait), nor the strange eyes of the male.
To re-iterate, Mayflies are the only insects other than Flies (Diptera order) where some species have 2 wings not 4.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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