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Scientific Name Polycentropus smithae Habitat Lakes and smaller silt or gravel creeks. Seasonality Adults can be found from mid-June to mid-August. Identification

Adults forewings are pale golden brown and the hindwings are paley tinted golden. Vertex of the head is deep yellow-brown. Legs are pale brownish yellow to straw coloured and the spurs are brownish yellow. In…

Adults forewings are pale golden brown and the hindwings are paley tinted golden. Vertex of the head is deep yellow-brown. Legs are pale brownish yellow to straw coloured and the spurs are brownish yellow. In males, segment 10's dorsal processes are corkscrewed and the cercus is rounded (Nimmo, 1986).

Read More + Life History Annual ? Conservation Not common. Diet Info Larvae are predacious. Range Transcontinental from Yukon and Vancouver Island, south to New Hampshire. Present in extreme eastern Quebec, with no records in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northern Ontario (Nimmo, 1986).