Small mayfly hatch from June

[jimbojones]

wondering specifically what may fly this is? Cloeon?
Sorry for the crap picture!

 

[Taxon]

Here is the best I can do as far as cropping, blowing up, and un-darkening your photo in order to be able to better see it for purpose of identification:

 

[Taxon]

In answer to your question as to whether or not it might be of genus Cloeon, I believe the answer to be no, as the abdominal banding pattern is quite different from Cloeon, which can be seen below:


https://bugguide.net/node/view/1726169/bgimage

 

[jimbojones]

Taxon, thank you for cropping that pic. definitely easier to see now! I see now that you are correct, the banding is different. any ideas on on the correct name?

 

[Taxon]

It would help me to narrow down the possibilities if you could provide the date that the photo was taken, the county where the photo was taken, and whether on (or in the immediate vicinity of) flowing water or still water.

 

[jimbojones]

It was on may 26th. Jefferson county, on the west side near Forks. standing over a decent size pool in a flowing river

 

[Taxon]

At this point, my guess would be that it is of family Baetidae, mostly due to its whitish unmarked forlegs, but I don't have very much confidence in that guess.

 

[jamma]

The only other possibility I would throw out here would be Siphlonurus, but that's just a wild, somewhat educated guess.