Another new species of the genus Habrophlebia Eaton, 1881 (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae) from the Maghreb

Majida El Alami; Laurent Vuataz; Sara El Yaagoubi; Michel Sartori

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1186.112796

Another new species of the genus Habrophlebia Eaton, 1881 (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae) from the Maghreb

Zookeys. 2023 Dec 11:1186:47-70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1186.112796. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Majida El Alami¹, Laurent Vuataz^{2

3}, Sara El Yaagoubi¹, Michel Sartori^{2

3}

Affiliations

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

Abstract

A new species belonging to the genus Habrophlebia Eaton, 1881 is described at the nymphal stage from the Rif Mountains of Morocco. This species presents unique features, such as the chorionic arrangement of the egg and the ornamentation of the posterior margin of abdominal tergites. It is compared to all west European Habrophlebia species and a table with discriminating characters is given. A phylogenetic reconstruction based on COI sequences fully supports the hypothesis of a new species in the Rif Mountains, with possible further distribution in southern Spain.

Keywords: COI; Habrophlebiadakkii sp. nov.; Morocco; Rif Mountains; Spain; West Palaearctic; mayflies; systematics.

Majida El Alami, Laurent Vuataz, Sara El Yaagoubi, Michel Sartori.