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Taxon | August 29th, 2013, 11:33 am | |
Site Editor Royse City, TXPosts: 1350 | Hi Louis- This is the information contained in my N. American Mayfly Species Query for Serratella serrata. Family name: Ephemerellidae Scientific name: Serratella serrata Previously know as: Ephemerella carolina, Ephemerella serrata, Ephemerella sordida, Ephemerella spiculosa, Serratella carolina, Serratella sordida, Serratella spiculosa Common name: Dark Iron Blue Quill, Little Dark Hendrickson, Olive Quill Locality: E, M CAN Regions: NE,NW MEX Regions: USA Regions: NE,SE Cent. Amer. Countries: CAN Provinces: *1:NB, NS, ON, QC. *4:SK *8: *99: MEX States: *1:*99: USA States: *1:AL, AR, CT, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, WI, WV. *2: *3: *5:NC *6:PA *7: *99: NC,NY,PA,TN Habitat: Voltinism: Emergence (begin) date: Jun Emergence (end) date: Jul Emergence time of day: morning Spinner fall time of day: Nymph minimum length: 5 mm. Nymph maximum length: 6 mm. Nymph identification keys: teeth on tarsal claw (3-5), abdominal spines (small, round), thoracic tubercles (present) Nymph body description: dark brown w/pale cream stripe along entire body length Nymph legs: Nymph gills: oval Nymph tusks: Nymph tails: 3, Dun minimum length: 5 mm. Dun maximum length: 5 mm. Dun identification keys: Dun body description: dark brown Dun wings: dark gray Dun legs: tannish cream Dun tails: 3, pale cream Spinner minimum length: 5 mm. Spinner maximum length: 5 mm. Spinner identification keys: ventral abdominal marks present, (male) penes broadened at base as much as or more than at apex; male claspers w/2 joints Spinner body description: thorax dark brown, abdomen brown Spinner wings: fore wing with detached intercalary veins, hind wing w/costal angulation Spinner legs: Spinner tails: 3, Region distribution/taxonomy are based on Mayfly Central's N.A. Species List and C.A. Species List. State/Province distribution is based on: *1: Distribution of mayfly species of North America, by R. P. Randolph, supplemented by Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of the far western United States by M. D. Meyer & W. P. McCafferty (*2: Part I: Washington), supplemented by (*3: Part II: Oregon), supplemented by *4: The Mayflies Of Saskatchewan by J. M. Webb, supplemented by *5: The Ephemeroptera Of North Carolina by S. R. Beaty, supplemented by *6: Pennsylvania Mayflies by Greg Hoover, supplemented by *7: Insecta, Ephemeroptera: New Alabama state records by McCafferty & Webb, supplemented by *8: Insecta, Ephemeroptera: New records for Ontario by McCafferty, Jacobus, Webb, and Meyer, supplemented by *99: A DNA Barcode Library for North American Ephemeroptera: etc. by Webb, Jacobus, Funk, et. al. | |
Best regards, Roger Rohrbeck www.FlyfishingEntomology.com | ||
Entoman | August 29th, 2013, 12:48 pm | |
Northern CA & ID Posts: 2604 | According to Allen & Edmunds '63, both species are well distributed along the Appalachian corridor from the carolinas up into Northern Canada. As one would expect, emergence occurs later the further North you go. In the NE, a time frame of July to late August is given, depending on the year and location. Curiously, this older paper reverses the size description, showing serrata (sordida) as the smaller critter. The good news is it is consistent with other papers that list tail annulations as a diagnostic character and have it listed in its key. | |
"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman | ||
Entoman | August 29th, 2013, 1:09 pm | |
Northern CA & ID Posts: 2604 | I have fairly extensive experience with the virtually identical Serratella tibialis (Little Dk. Red Quill) out in my neck of the woods. Tibialis has since been relisted in the Ephemerella genus, but no matter. Still a dark little Summer ephemerellid, whatever scientists choose to call it. It is fairly common on some mountain streams and is probably the most important Summer mayfly we have on those lacking tricos and where the PMD's have long since finished. Unlike the Summer heptageniids that usually seem to trickle off, these hatches are more concentrated and they can come off in pretty good numbers. Pain in the butt to fish as they are usually very difficult to make out on sparkly Summer riffles and don't seem to show up in the evening air all that well, either. A lot of anglers miss them and assume the feeding fish are working caddis (that are always about) or terrestrials in the film. This is one hatch where the fish definitely seem to prefer flies with dark wings that match the natural. I rarely get away with bright sighter posts. It was much easier to fish them when I had younger eyes. :) | |
"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman | ||
Martinlf | August 29th, 2013, 7:20 pm | |
Moderator Palmyra PAPosts: 3233 | Yes, the fish also can be a bit picky about the wing color with Teloganopsis, at least on one pressured stream I fish. I've tied parachutes with colored posts then with a black marker darkened the lower portions, leaving just a bright tip, for those iron grey days when glare seems everywhere. Sometimes a solid black post or black burned wings will show up well enough, depending on the light. | |
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell | ||
Crepuscular | September 13th, 2013, 8:34 am | |
Boiling Springs, PA Posts: 923 | Tails are not banded on the one I posted | |
Jmd123 | September 13th, 2013, 8:57 pm | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | "I just got back from the great white north. WOW 6 weeks in the bush." Welcome back Mack! Sooooo...PHOTOS?? Funny thing, this here website got a little quiet for a while, so I started posting some of my local trips (especially with the wildflowers in full bloom). That seemed to have gotten the ball rolling, now we're getting some fresh trip reports replete with wonderful photos. Of course, we always know we can count on Spence for that... ;oD So Mack, I know you got' em, post your latest adventures like the rest of us! Jonathon | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
Jmd123 | September 14th, 2013, 12:15 am | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | Mack, good for you! That sounds like a great time, I imagine your son is loving it too. Yeah, check out some of my latest posts, got caught up in June and July in a butterfly habitat survey project in the Manistee National Forest, have been making up for it with fishing in August and September... Do post some pics, I would love to see you and your son at work in the wild. Jonathon | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
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