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Imago. The compound eyes distinctly two-lobed (in males), or rounded (in females); upper lobe in the males rounded.
Wings fringed only in sub-imagines. Fore-wings with veins M1 and Cu1 sub-parallel basally; with R5 and R4 joined basally. Hind-wings present. The hind-wing costa smoothly curved. Hind tarsi with 4 moveable segments.
The abdomen with three tails. The lobes of the penis each with two recurved appendages.
Nymph. The outer tails hairy on both sides. Gills mostly at the sides of the abdomen; not fringed with filaments on both sides; never comprising a plate bearing a tuft of filaments.
Classification. Superfamily Baetoidea. Family Leptophlebiidae.
British representation. 3 species; P. cincta (Purple Dun and Spinners), P. submarginata (Turkey Brown Dun and Spinners), and P. werneri.
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