Ephemera compar Hagen, 1875
Colorado burrowing mayfly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1873 (Hagen, 1875)
Rediscovered in 2015 or before
Distribution
Foothills, Colorado, USA & Alberta, Canada
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hagen, Hermann August. (1875). Report of the Pseudo-Neuroptera and Neuroptera collected by Lieut. W. L. Carpenter in 1873 in Colorado, pp. 571-606. In: Haden, V. F. (ed.). Annual Report on the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado, being a report of progress of the explorations for the year 1873.
Other references:
Edmunds jnr., George F. and McCafferty, W. P. (1984). Ephemera compar: an obscure Colorado burrowing mayfly (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae). Entomological News 95(5): 186-188.
McCafferty, W.P. 1975. The burrowing mayflies of the United States (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeroidea). Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 101: 447-503.
McCafferty, W. P. 1994. Distributional and classificatory supplement to the burrowing mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeroidea) of the United States. Entomological News 105 (January and February, 1994):1-13.
McCafferty, W.P. 1996. The Ephemeroptera species of North America and index to the complete nomenclature. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 112(1):1-54.
McCafferty, W. P. (2001). Status of some historically unfamiliar American mayflies (Ephemeroptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 77(3): 210-218.
McCafferty, W. P., R. S. Durfee, and B. C. Kondratieff. 1993. Colorado mayflies (Ephemeroptera): an annotated inventory. The Southwestern Nautralist 38(3):252-74.
Purdue University Department of Entomology (W.P. McCafferty ed.) 1995. Mayfly Central- The Mayflies of North America. Continual updates available at: https://www.entm.purdue.edu/mayfly/index.php / http://www.entm.purdue.edu/mayfly/na-species-list.php
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1802/ephemera-compar
https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.110792/Ephemera_compar