Males
1. Tip of subgenital plate rather broad, with sharply pointed paraprocts . . . .Ostrocerca trucata
Tip of subgenital plate slender, divided medially by rather deep notch; spur on paraprocts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .O. albidipennis
Females
1. Sternite 7 lacking sclerotization, its hind margin not produced; margin of 8th sternite somewhat produced and broadly and almost rectangularly excavated. . . . . . . . . . . Ostrocerca truncata
Sternite 7 somewhat sclerotized along its hind margin, at least near the middle (inconspiculous in O. albidipennis). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. albidipennis
[Home]; [Back to Adult Families]; [Back to Nemouridae Family]
Key to the Adult Ostrocerca of Ohio