Ephemeroptera (order)

Unidentified Mayfly at Bungonia, NSW

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Identification history

Ephemeroptera (order)	23 Oct 2023	michaelb
Ephemeroptera (order)	23 Oct 2023	KorinneM
Libellulidae (family)	23 Oct 2023	michaelb
Belostomatidae (family)	21 Oct 2023	RogerF
Gryllacrididae sp. (family)	21 Oct 2023	KorinneM

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User's notes

Sitting on a boulder at the water's edge at the creek.

5 comments

KorinneM wrote:

22 Oct 2023

@RogerF Matthew Connors on iNaturalist has commented the following:

It's definitely not a belostomatid either. I reckon it's a stonefly nymph or something along those lines.

RogerF wrote:

23 Oct 2023

A stonefly nymph should have filamentous cercae and antennae. Maybe these have broken off giving it the appearance of a bug nymph. See pictures in the waterbug book.

KorinneM wrote:

23 Oct 2023

@RogerF From Russell Yong who is one of the admins on the entemology group on Facebook:

It's a leptophlebiid mayfly nymph. Three posterior processes, blocky head, lateral serrations. Prob wandered above the waterline in wetter times and then got stranded.

KorinneM wrote:

23 Oct 2023

@michaelb see my comment. Looking at iNaturalist, that does seem to fit, just lost the long bits off the end.

RogerF wrote:

23 Oct 2023

Good detective work!

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