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Issue: Vol. 5492 No. 2: 5 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5492.2.7
Page range: 279-288
Abstract views: 94
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Description of Mesophylax isly sp. nov. (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae) from Morocco, and new genus records from the Balkans

Équipe de Recherche en Biologie et Biotechnologie Appliquées; Faculté Pluridisciplinaire de Nador; Université Mohammed Premier; Morocco
Biotechnology; Conservation and Valorisation of Natural Resources Laboratory (BCVNR); Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mehraz; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University; Fez; Morocco
University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Department of Biology; Prishtinë; Republic of Kosovo
Trichoptera Caddisfly diversity microscale endemism North Africa Kosovo Albania West Palearctic

Abstract

The male and female genitalia of Mesophylax isly Ibrahimi, Taybi & Mabrouki sp. nov. (Limnephilidae) are described based on material collected from the Isly River in Morocco. The new species is most similar to Mesophylax aspersus hoggarensis Malicky 1988 known from Algeria, from which it differs in the formation of intermediate appendages, inferior appendages, parameres, and segment IX in males, as well as in the formation of segment X, lateral shoulders of segment IX, supragenital plate and vulvar scale in females. Information is provided on the autecology and habitat of the new species, as well information about other species co-occurring with M. isly sp. nov. We also report new localities for Mesophylax aspersus aspersus Rambur 1842 from Kosovo and Morocco and the first record of Mesophylax impunctatus aduncus Navás 1923 from Albania.

 

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