Labiobaetis from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Insecta, Ephemeroptera, Baetidae)

By

Gattolliat, Jean-Luc
Kondratieff, Boris C
Kaltenbach, Thomas
Al Dhafer, Hathal

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

774

Pages

77-104

Subjects

Arabian Peninsula , Mayflies , new records , new species

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25273

 

Abstract

Mayfly larvae and imagos were collected at approximately 50 localities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSU). Included in this material, three species ofLabiobaetisNovikova & Kluge, 1987 are recorded, two of them being new to science.LabiobaetispotamoticusGattolliat & Al Dhafer,sp. n.is described from both larvae and adults, whereasLabiobaetisalahmadiiGattolliat & Al Dhafer,sp. n.is only known from the larval stage. The two species are compared morphologically with Palearctic and Afrotropical species ofLabiobaetis. A third species,Labiobaetisglaucus(Agnew, 1961) is reported for the first time from the Arabian Peninsula. The species was originally described from South Africa and subsequently reported from the east and northeast of Africa. A molecular reconstruction including 18 Afrotropical and Palearctic species ofLabiobaetiswas performed using 658 bp of the mitochondrial gene CO1. The reconstruction highly supported the validity of the two new species and confirmed the occurrence ofL.glaucusin KSU.