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Issue: Vol. 4173 No. 6: 10 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.6.5
Page range: 577–582
Abstract views: 129
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A new species of Aphelocheirus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aphelocheiridae) from Morocco

Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia. Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia.
Laboratoire Ecologie, Biodiversité et Environnement. Département de Biologie, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Faculté des Sciences, Tétouan, Morocco.
Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia. Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia.
Laboratoire Science de l'Eau, l'Environnement et de L'Ecologie, Université Mohammed Ier, Faculté des Sciences de Oujda, Morocco.
Département de Zoologie and Ecologie Animale, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Institut Scientifique, Rabat, Morocco.
Hemiptera Water bugs Nepomorpha Western Europe Maghreb

Abstract

This paper provides the description of a new species of Aphelocheirus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aphelocheiridae), Aphelocheirus pemae sp. nov. from Morocco. The species was found in two sites located in different basins (Sebou and Moulouya rivers) that are separated by approximately 400 km. Photographs of the dorsal habitus of the female and illustrations of the male genitalic structures are provided. A graphical key to species of the genus in Western Europe and the Maghreb is also included. The new species can be easily distinguished by the unique shape of the left and right parameres and absence of apical spines on the aedeagus.

 

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