A weird little mayfly

[MarkSturtevant]

Over the previous summer, I made it a regular habit to scour the front porch in the morning to look for insects that were drawn in by our porch light overnight. Among the more common squatters were these small mayflies. Although they look very different from each other, I believe they are different sexes of one species: Callibaetus ferrugineus.
Here is the female.
Minnow mayfly by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Males are tiny, but they have extraordinary compound eyes. The upward turret-shaped eyes are thought to be used to watch for females.
Minnow mayfly by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr
Minnow mayfly by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

The pictures were taken as manual focus stacks. The lens was the Venus/Laowa 2.5x-5x. Merging the stacks was done in Zerene Stacker, and then further processed in Gimp.

Thanks for looking!

[Guppy]

Hi Mark

Very nice pictures in a super resolution, everything clear and recognizable.
The turban eyes are the absolute hit

Kurt

[Lou Jost]

"I only have eyes for you, dear"

[Adalbert]

very nice

[Marcepstein]

These are real nice images