![]() | Mayfly Female, Wing Venation | Rough Pachymorpha Stick Insect S1, Male, dorsal, Released | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Mayfly (Baetidae) | |||||||||||||
Species: | Mayfly (Cloeon cf paradieniense)This Photo: | Female, Thorax | 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.
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