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

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1117

Pages

203--218

Subjects

High Atlas Mountains , mayfly , North Africa , Western Palearctic

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1117.83539

 

Abstract

We describe a new species of Prosopistoma collected in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Prosopistoma maroccanumsp. 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.