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Megaloptera - Corydalidae
heaviest gill tufts, very big |
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Megaloptera - Sialidae
* adult, wing – pale white spot on anus = adult |
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Neuroptera- Sisyridae
piercers
very stout bodied, white, look squishy
- hairs off of each spike |
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Tricoptera - Helicopsychiidae
Cool Lotic waters, Shredders, Scrapers
– cocoon resembles snail shell |
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Tricops - Hydropsychidae
* no intricate wing veins, eyes have a light purple tint
-gill tufts, little one have grey bodies and dark heads, tufts on ass |
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Tricops - Hydroptilidae – fuzzy wing * very small, lot of fur coming off wings and only wings, fuzzy water
- very oblong appearance, white, miniature pototo chips present, known head and thorax |
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Tricops - Leptoceridae - * incredibly long anteannae, unique patterns to blotched wings
- ciliated thorax |
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Tricops - Phryganeidae - * black x’s where leg attach, empty grass blade case, claw comes off head, 1 notum on back large insect, complete speckled
- lot of hair present on neck, 4 segmented antennae |
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Tricops - Glossosomatidae
little heads, thick bodied, anus = little grove, small casing |
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Tricops - Rhyacophilidae
2 or 4 hooks off of anu, legs alternating brown and white, kinda chunky, purple body type |
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Tricops - Philopotamidae
* dark body head and eyes, same color which makes it hard to see the eyes.
- long neck and head attachment, white filaments connecting neck to head |
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Tricops - Polycentropodidae
snake tongue, yellowish white, tail splits like snake tongue |
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Tricops - Brachycentridae
solid white body, dark head, cocoon = square shaped Ishpeming sculpture |
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Tricops - Molannidae
* hooked anus, middle libria w/ 2 preapical spurs, abdomen, gill reminants hair in armpits, modified tarsal claws, solid white bodied, dorsal hump |
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Tricops - Lepidostomatidae
see thru body, can see curve gut tract, dark head, light body |
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Tricops - Limnephilidae
* distinct speckled black thorned legs, 2 blots wings, 2 black dots on anus
- spagettii strands on top and bottom of body, dorsal hump on segment I, caterpillar like, jumbled casing |
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Diptera - Nemotocera - Blephariceridae
fat head, skinny body, w/out scope resemble dead fish skeleton (lotic scraper) |
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Diptera- Nemotocera - Chaoboridae
white, clear strand looking, 2 dots on abdomen and on thorax, obvious(lentic littoral) (predator) |
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Diptera - Nemotocera - Ptychopteridae
dragonfly appearance, no legs, but legs alternate brown and white, orange brown, prickly appearance consistenly throughout, 1 single strand off of the anus (lotic, GC) |
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Diptera - Nemotocera - Ceratopagonidae
just plain brown strands w/ no features, smallest of small flies present as well (lentic littoral) (predator) |
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Diptera - Nemotocera - Simuliidae
bumblebee ass, fanned antennae (lotic, CF) |
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Diptera - Nemotocera - Chironomidae
strong resemblance of typical mosquitoes jumanji, larvae, resemble white worm, very simple head |
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Diptera - Nemotocera - Culicidae
mosquito (lentic littoral, GC) |
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Diptera - Nemotocera - Tipulidae
overlapped abdomen very large, clubbed tail (lentic shredder) |
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Diptera
Branchycera
Empididae |
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Diptera
Branchycera
Muscidae |
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Diptera - Branchycera - Syrphidae
shriveled looking, rat (lentic GC) |
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Diptera- Brachycera - Tabanidae
horseflies, very obvious, larvae = fairly uniform worm appearance (lotic, predator) |
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Diptera - Brachycera - Athericidae
last 3 segment of abdomen do not conform w/ rest of body, head v shape, manitee (lotic, predator) |
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| Diptera - Brachycera- Sciomyzidae |
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Coleptera- Gyrinidae
(predator, littoral, piercers)
– spooky brown eyes, white hairs off of mouth, reddish front legs, body very uniform, pores on shell |
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Coleptera - Dytiscidae
green reflective head, male = small suctions, female = big, abdomen resembles dinosaur tail |
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Coleptera - Elmidae
solid black, reflective shell, 3 segmented shell, cockroach like, very hard to describe |
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Coleptera - Psephenidae
water pennies, org. inside shell has white hairs on ends of legs |
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Coleptera - Hydrophilidae
caramel reflective shell |
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Coleptera - Haliplidae
unique black doted oranged shell, beetle looking |
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