Body tan to dark brown w/light banding; large triangular (sometimes rounded) gills on the second segment of abdomen covering the remaining gills; 3 tails w/middle tail longer; hatches before daylight.
Dun body (male) dark brown or black, (female) light green to pale gray; wings gray; legs; whitish gray; 3 tails (m) 2x body length, (f) 1x body length.
Tricorythodes explicatus
State of Washington distribution is based on: Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of the far western United States (Part I: Washington)
by M. D. Meyer & W. P. McCafferty,
and augmented by A DNA Barcode Library for North American Ephemeroptera: etc. by Webb, Jacobus, Funk, et. al.
Created: 08/16/2013 Last modified: 12/07/2014
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