Ephemera compar

{{Short description|Species of mayfly}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Ephemera | species = compar | authority = Hagen, 1875 }}

Most likely, '''''Ephemera compar''''' is an extinct species of burrowing mayfly in the family Ephemeridae. It was found in North America.<ref name=itis/><ref name=gbif/><ref name=ref00/> ''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.<ref>{{Cite journal |title="Ephemera compar: an obscure Colorado burrowing mayfly (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae" |url=http://www.ephemeroptera-galactica.com/pubs/pub_e/pubedmundsg1984p186.pdf |journal=Entomological News |issue=95 |pages=186-188}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=''Ephemera compar'' Report | url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=101536 | website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System | accessdate=2020-01-23 }}</ref>

<ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Ephemera compar'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/5049186 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2020-01-23 }}</ref>

<ref name=ref00> {{Cite web | accessdate = 2019-07-02 | title = Mayfly Central | url = https://www.entm.purdue.edu/mayfly/ }}</ref> }}

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