A new species of the Baetisfuscatus group (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from Morocco

Sara El Yaagoubi; Laurent Vuataz; Majida El Alami; Jean-Luc Gattolliat

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1180.109298

A new species of the Baetisfuscatus group (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from Morocco

Zookeys. 2023 Sep 15:1180:27-50. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1180.109298. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Sara El Yaagoubi¹, Laurent Vuataz^{2

3}, Majida El Alami¹, Jean-Luc Gattolliat^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique, Conservation de la Biodiversité (LESCB), Unité de Recherche Labellisée CNRST N°18, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Faculté des Sciences, Département de Biologie, B.P.2121 93002 Tétouan, Morocco Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi Tetouan Morocco.
² Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles, Palais de Rumine, Place Riponne 6, CH-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland Muséum Cantonal des Sciences Naturelles, Palais de Rumine Lausanne Switzerland.
³ University of Lausanne (UNIL), Department of Ecology and Evolution, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Lausanne (UNIL) Lausanne Switzerland.

Abstract

Baetisrifensissp. nov. is the first representative of the Baetisfuscatus group to be described from the Maghreb. It was collected from streams in the Rif region of northern Morocco. All species of the B.fuscatus group are morphologically very similar, with slight differences in colour. Thus, in addition to morphological description, species delimitation based on genetic evidence was carried out. The new species was compared with other members of the B.fuscatus group from the Palaearctic region.

Keywords: COI; Maghreb; Rif; mayflies; morphology; taxonomy.

Sara El Yaagoubi, Laurent Vuataz, Majida El Alami, Jean-Luc Gattolliat.