Most likely, Ephemera compar is an extinct species of burrowing mayfly in the family Ephemeridae. It was found in North America.[1][2][3] Ephemera compar is known from a single specimen, collected from the "foothills of Colorado" in 1873, but despite intensive surveys of the Colorado mayflies reported in 1984, it has not been rediscovered.[4]

Ephemera compar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Family: Ephemeridae
Genus: Ephemera
Species:
E. compar
Binomial name
Ephemera compar
Hagen, 1875

References edit

  1. ^ "Ephemera compar Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  2. ^ "Ephemera compar". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  3. ^ "Mayfly Central". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ^ ""Ephemera compar: an obscure Colorado burrowing mayfly (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae"" (PDF). Entomological News (95): 186–188.