1. Left mandible with a high thumblike dorso-lateral projection (Fig. 1.1); prominent notch on the anterior border of the frontoclypeal apotome (Fig. 1.2). Rare in Ohio; found in primary headwaters. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diplectrona metaqui
Left mandible without a dorso-lateral projection, at most a carina (Fig. 1.3), and anterior edge of frontoclypeus straight or convex (Fig. 1.4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diplectrona modesta
Key to Species of Diplectrona Nymphs