Baetidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) of Aurès Mountains (Algeria): A New Species of the Baetis alpinus Species Group, with Notes on Baetis Laech, 1815 Biogeography within Maghreb

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/14/11/899" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/14/11/899</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14110899" target="_blank" >10.3390/insects14110899</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Baetidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) of Aurès Mountains (Algeria): A New Species of the Baetis alpinus Species Group, with Notes on Baetis Laech, 1815 Biogeography within Maghreb

Original language description

A new species, Baetis (Baetis) dihyae sp. nov., belonging to the Baetis alpinus species group, is described and illustrated based on larval material collected in the Aurès Mountains (northeastern Algeria) in 2020–2021. This new species is closely related to three European species, e.g., Baetis (B.) alpinus (Pictet, 1843), B. (B.) nubecularis Eaton, 1898, and B. (B.) pasquetorum Righetti & Thomas, 2002 by the combination of the following characteristics: (i) more than one short, stout bristle at the tip of segment II of the maxillary palp and (ii) a well-developed paracercus. However, the new species clearly differs from all congeners of the Baetis alpinus species group primarily by the (a) structure of mouthparts—with 14–18 long submarginal setae arranged in a single irregular row on the dorsal surface of the labrum, 2–6 short, stout bristles at the tip of segment II of the maxillary palp, and segment II of the labial palp without a considerably developed apico-internal lobe), (b) setation of abdominal terga, with a few triangular-shaped scales sparsely scattered near the posterior margin only, and (c) a well-developed paracercus, comprised of more than 50 segments. Primary data on the biology and distribution of this new species are provided, and molecular affinities are verified by the analysis of COI (barcode) sequences. Detailed notes on the distribution of mayfly species belonging to the Baetis alpinus species group common inWestern Europe and the western part of North Africa are presented. The historical movement of Baetis representatives between Europe, North West Africa, and subsequently Algeria, with the land bridges ‘Strait of Gibraltar’ and ‘Strait of Sicily’ as colonization routes, is discussed in detail and identified in the present study as the Western Algeria colonization path and Eastern Algeria colonization path, respectively.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Insects

ISSN

2075-4450

e-ISSN

2075-4450

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

NOV

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

34

Pages from-to

899

UT code for WoS article

001114366500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85178279931