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Abstract This work presents an updated list of water beetles of the Elmidae and Dryopidae occurring in Morocco. The study is based on an exhaustive review of literature (1914–2021) complemented with field and laboratory investigations on more than 2200 collected individuals between 1997 and 2019. As a result, 30 species belonging to nine genera of Elmidae and Dryopidae are listed with their distribution in Morocco and North Africa. From the 30 species, Elmidae are represented by 21 species and seven genera, whereas Dryopidae are represented by nine species and only two genera. A chorological analysis shows that the Elmidae and Dryopidae from Morocco are essentially Mediterranean (60%), with a very high prevalence of endemics in the broadest sense (77.78%) within this group, whilst those Palearctic species (33.33%) or Afrotropical-Mediterranean (6.67%) are clearly less represented. This chorotype pattern is notably different to that observed in other aquatic beetle families in the same study area, where the percentage of endemic species was much lower. Moroccan Dryopoidea include seven endemic species exclusive to Morocco, six Maghrebian and one Ibero-Maghrebian species.
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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.