Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Brown mayfly??

Posted by nick upton on 09-06-2011 11:31
#1
Can anyone confirm my ID of this mayfly (emerged very early in April..) as the Brown Mayfly Ephemera vulgata? The abdomen seems darker than the Green drake mayflies I usually see (Epehemera danica) but this was at a different site where the river flows more slowly.

25.4.11 c15mm resting on Nettle by riverbank (many were dancing), near Bath, UK.
Edited by nick upton on 09-06-2011 11:47

Posted by Jan Willem on 09-06-2011 11:36
#2
Possibly Ephemera vulgata.

Posted by nick upton on 09-06-2011 11:46
#3
Thanks Willem, though I was hoping for a definite ID, or is that maybe very tricky for mayflies? Here is a closer view in case that helps.

Posted by daandrukker on 25-10-2018 10:55
#4
Ephemera vulgata is correct. Male imago

Posted by nick upton on 01-11-2018 15:42
#5
Many thanks for your confirmation of my ID.
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