Males 

1.         Tip of outer member of pariprocts expanded and bearing a group of large spines separately                   from inner member. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amphinemura varshava

            Tip of outer member slender, bound to inner member, with few short spines or no spines . . . . .             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.         Inner member of paraproct much produced rearward at bend, where it is thin and compressed;             its tip unsclerotized and not recurved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. delosa

            Inner member not compressed at the bend; its tip recurved at least on inner side . . A. nigritta

Females

1.         Border of subgenital plate (8th sternite) with median notch and small but definite V- or U-                   shaped  lateral notch on either side. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Amphinemura delosa

            Border of plate merely sinuate laterally or, less commonly, with broad V-shaped notch . . . . . . .             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. varshava & A. nigritta

 

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Stoneflies of Ohio

Key to the Adult Amphinemura of Ohio

(Modified from Hitchcock, 1974)