''Epeorus sylvicola'' is a species of
mayfly
Mayflies (also known as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern United States, as Canadian soldiers in the American Great Lakes region, and as up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the ord ...
belonging to the family
Heptageniidae
The Heptageniidae (synonym: Ecdyonuridae) are a family of mayflies with over 500 described species mainly distributed in the Holarctic, Oriental, and Afrotropical regions, and also present in the Central American Tropics and extreme northern Sou ...
.
The species is found in Europe and Western Asia.
The larvae typically inhabit fast flowing waters and have rigid gill plates.
References
Mayflies
Insects described in 1865
Insects of Europe
Insects of Western Asia
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