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