Y. Mabrouki, A. F. Taybi, M. Alami, R. Wiggers, A. Berrahou
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Abstract
Abstract In 2014–2019, we carried out an examination of Trichoptera of the Moulouya River basin in the Oriental, Fèz-Meknès and Drâa-Tafilalet regions of Morocco. Caddisflies of the territories of the High Plateau, the oriental Sahara and the eastern parts of the Rif, Middle Atlas and the High Atlas have been studied for the first time. We collected and identified 41 species. Rhyacophila sp. cf. intermedia/rougemonti McLachlan, 1868/McLachlan, 1880 (Rhyacophilidae); Hydropsyche sp. cf. exocellata Duföur, 1841 (Hydropsychidae) and Mesophylax aspersus hoggarensis Malicky, 1998 (Limnephlidae) are reported for the first time from Morocco. 21 species are recorded for the first time from Oriental Region and 13 species from Drâa-Tafilalet Region. For previously recorded species, we present additional distributional data. Additionally, we provide taxonomic notes on larvae of Athripsodes sp., Rhyacophila sp. and Mesophylax sp. cf. impunctatus McLachlan, 1884. We found a clear dominance of the Palearctic elements, typically Mediterranean, and a high rate of Ibero‐Maghrebian endemics in the Trichoptera fauna of northeastern Morocco. This chorotype pattern is similar to patterns observed for other aquatic insects in the same study area.
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Aquatic Insects is an international journal publishing original research on the systematics, biology, and ecology of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects.
The subject of the research is aquatic and semi-aquatic insects, comprising taxa of four primary orders, the Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera but also aquatic and semi-aquatic families of Hemiptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera, as well as specific representatives of Hymenoptera , Lepidoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera , and Neuroptera that occur in lotic and lentic habitats during part of their life cycle. Studies on other aquatic Hexapoda (i.e., Collembola) will be only accepted if space permits. Papers on other aquatic Arthropoda (e.g., Crustacea) will not be considered, except for those closely related to aquatic and semi-aquatic insects (e.g., water mites as insect parasites).
The topic of the research may include a wide range of biological fields. Taxonomic revisions and descriptions of individual species will be accepted especially if additional information is included on habitat preferences, species co-existing, behavior, phenology, collecting methods, etc., that are of general interest to an international readership. Descriptions based on single specimens are discouraged.
Detailed studies on morphology, physiology, behavior, and phenology of aquatic insects in all stadia of their life cycle are welcome as well as the papers with molecular and phylogenetic analyses, especially if they discuss evolutionary processes of the biological, ecological, and faunistic formation of the group.