An unexpected new species of Habrophlebia from Algeria (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae)

Lina Hanane Kechemir; Michel Sartori; Abdelkader Lounaci

doi:10.3897/zookeys.953.51244

An unexpected new species of Habrophlebia from Algeria (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae)

Zookeys. 2020 Jul 27:953:31-47. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.953.51244. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Lina Hanane Kechemir¹, Michel Sartori^{2

3}, Abdelkader Lounaci¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire Ressources Naturelles, Faculté des Sciences agronomiques et des sciences biologiques, Université Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou Algeria.
² Musée cantonal de zoologie, Palais de Rumine, Place Riponne 6, CH-1005 Lausanne, Suisse Musée cantonal de zoologie Lausanne Switzerland.
³ Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland.

Abstract

We describe a new species of Habrophlebia, H. djurdjurensis sp. nov., based on nymphal, imaginal, and egg stages obtained by sampling from the Great Kabylia watershed, north-central Algeria. The new species was previously identified as H. cf. fusca by Lounaci et al. 2000. Habrophlebia djurdjurensis is in fact more related to H. vaillantorum Thomas, 1996 but can be separated by characters on the nymphs and male imago. This is the fourth species of Habrophlebia reported from North Africa.

Keywords: Djurdjura; Habrophlebia djurdjurensis sp. nov.; Kabylia; ecology; taxonomy.

Lina Hanane Kechemir, Michel Sartori, Abdelkader Lounaci.