Ephemera compar (Colorado Burrowing Mayfly)

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Colorado Burrowing Mayfly
(Ephemera compar)

Colorado (SX)

This species was known only from the type material taken in the mid 19th century and is now considered extinct (McCafferty, 1996; 2001).

[Melanie]

EPHEMERA COMPAR: AN OBSCURE COLORADO BURROWING MAYFLY (EPHEMEROPTERA: EPHEMERIDAE) 1-2
GF Edmunds Jr, WP McCafferty - 1984

www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_e/pubedmundsg1984p186.pdf

[Melanie]

Status of some historically unfamiliar American mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
WP McCafferty - Pan Pacific Entomologist, 2001

www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_m/pubmccaffertyw2001p210.pdf

[Melanie]

Scientific description by Hermann August Hagen (1874)


Annual report. United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. (pg. 578)

Hagen. 1874. In Hayden. Report of the Pseudo-Neuroptera and Neuroptera collected by Lieut. W. L. Carpenter in 1873 in Colorado. 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, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. 571-606

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33306893#page/797/mode/1up

[Sebbe]

This species was known only from the type material taken in the mid 19th century in Colorado and was considered extinct (McCafferty, 1996; 2001). Recently confirmed for Alberta, Canada (Wild Species report 2015).

explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.110792/Ephemera_compar