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Ephemera compar

Most likely, Ephemera compar is an extinct species of burrowing mayfly in the family Ephemeridae. It was found in North America. 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.

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Ephemera compar
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Ephemeroptera
Family: Ephemeridae
Genus: Ephemera
Species:
E. compar
Binomial name
Ephemera compar
Hagen, 1875

Most likely, Ephemera compar is an extinct species of burrowing mayfly in the family Ephemeridae. It was found in North America.123 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

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References

  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.