A new species of the genus Prosopistoma Latreille, 1833 (Ephemeroptera, Prosopistomatidae) from Morocco

Majida El Alami; Mokhtar Benlasri; Michel Sartori; Laurent Vuataz; Mohamed Ghamizi

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1117.83539

A new species of the genus Prosopistoma Latreille, 1833 (Ephemeroptera, Prosopistomatidae) from Morocco

Zookeys. 2022 Aug 15:1117:203-218. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1117.83539. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Majida El Alami¹, Mokhtar Benlasri², Michel Sartori^{3

4}, Laurent Vuataz^{3

4}, Mohamed Ghamizi²

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 Tétouan Morocco.
² Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Marrakech, Université Cadi Ayyad, Faculté des Sciences, Semlalia, B.P. 2390, Marrakech, Morocco Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech Morocco.
³ Museum of Zoology, Palais de Rumine, Place Riponne 6, CH-1005, Lausanne, Switzerland Museum of Zoology, Palais de Rumine Lausanne Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolution, Lausanne University, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland Lausanne University Lausanne Switzerland.

Abstract

We describe a new species of Prosopistoma collected in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Prosopistomamaroccanum sp. nov. appears to be morphologically more similar to the European highly endangered P.pennigerum (Müller, 1785) than to the other Maghrebian species, P.alaini Bojkova & Soldán, 2015. A gene tree including the few available barcode sequences of Palearctic Prosopistoma specimens is provided. Possible affinities with West African species are also discussed.

Keywords: High Atlas Mountains; North Africa; Western Palearctic; mayfly.

Majida El Alami, Mokhtar Benlasri, Michel Sartori, Laurent Vuataz, Mohamed Ghamizi.