First report of Cloeon vanharteni Gattolliat & Sartori, 2008 (Baetidae, Ephemeroptera) in the Maghreb

By

Benlasri, Mokhtar
Vuataz, Laurent
Gattolliat, Jean-Luc
Beermann, Arne J.
Leßner, Heribert
El Alami El Moutaouakil, Majida
Ghamizi, Mohamed
Berger, Elisabeth

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-9-26

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

7

Pages

143--152

Subjects

COI , Distribution , Drâa basin , Mayflies , Morocco

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/alpento.7.109562

 

Abstract

Cloeon vanharteni Gattolliat & Sartori, 2008 was newly discovered in the framework of our study of Ephemeroptera in the Draa basin, located in the southern region of the High Atlas in Morocco. This discovery is rather unexpected as the species was never reported outside the Arabian Peninsula and Levant; it is thus the first record for the Maghreb. The identification was based on morphological evidence and confirmed by the mitochondrial COI barcode.