Capnioneura petitpierreae Aubert 1961
Description
Capnioneura petitpierreae Aubert, 1961
Material examined. Rif: Chefchaouen, Laou v.: Tamalout r., Talassemtane village, 860 m, 20.10.2003, 2 female, 14N; Saguia of Anssar Afaska, 1293 m, 18.10.2003, 1 male, 3 female, 14N; Hajra r., 300 m, 1 male, 7N (ELA); Taria r., Talassemtane Park, 1200 m, 25.11.2008, 10N; North of Maggo town r., 905 m, 10.12.2007, 2 male; Ouara Khizana r., Rills spr, 930 m, 10.12.2007, 1 male, 3 female; Ras el Ma Affluent, 457 m, 28.12.2012, 2 male, 2 female, 5N (ERR). Tetouan, Martil v.: Hamma r., Bouanane spr., 400 m, 21.03.1997, 3 male, 1 female, 10N (ELA).
Distribution (Fig. 9). A Betico-Maghrebin species with wide Maghreb distribution, in northern Morocco to Tunisia and extending in Andalucía. In Morocco, this species was reported for the first time by Aubert (1961) from a Rifan stream near Mount Tidirhine. It has also been collected in several other localities in the Rif (Meinander 1967, Sánchez-Ortega & Azzouz 1998, Errochdi & El Alami 2008, Errochdi et al. 2014), Middle Atlas (Dakki 1987), North Atlantic Morocco (Mamora-Zemmour) and in the Central Plateau (El Agbani et al. 1992) between 10 and 2000 m. However, it seems to be absent in eastern Morocco and the High Atlas. Indeed, specimens of C. petitpierreae cited by Bouzidi & Giudicelli (1994) in the High Atlas were assigned to C. atlasica (Vinçon et al. 2014).
Ecology. In the Middle Atlas, C. petitpierreae is only reported from high altitude brooks and torrents (1500–1700 m), but in the rest of the Maghreb, it is more eurytopic and even present in lower stream reaches (Sánchez-Ortega & Azzouz 1998, Errochdi & El Alami 2008). Larvae are detritivores (Azzouz & Sánchez-Ortega 2000) and the adult emergence period extends from autumn into spring season (X–IV).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Capniidae
- Genus
- Capnioneura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Plecoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Aubert
- Species
- petitpierreae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Capnioneura petitpierreae Aubert, 1961 sec. Errochdi, Alami, Vinçon, Abdaoui & Ghamizi, 2014
References
- Aubert, J. (1961) Contribution a l'etude des Plecopteres du Maroc. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 33 (1960), 213 - 222.
- Meinander, M. (1967) A collection of Plecoptera from Morocco. - Notulae Entomologicae, Helsingfors, XLVIII, 45 - 46.
- Sanchez-Ortega, A. & Azzouz, M. (1998) Faunistique et phenologie des Plecopteres (Insecta, Plecoptera) du Rif marocain (Afrique du Nord). Relations avec les autres aires de la region mediterraneenne occidentale. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 71, 449 - 461.
- Errochdi, S. & El Alami, M. (2008) Contribution a la connaissance des Plecopteres (Insecta: Plecoptera) du reseau hydrographique Laou (Maroc nord-occidental). Travaux de l'Institut Scientifique, Rabat, serie generale, 5, 37 - 45.
- Dakki, M. (1987) Ecosysteme d'eau courante du haut Sebou (Moyen Atlas). Etudes typologiques et analyses ecologiques et biogeographiques des principaux peuplements entomologiques. Travaux de l'Institut scientifique, Rabat, serie Zoologie, 42, 99 pp.
- El Agbani, M. A., Dakki, M. & Bournaud, M. (1992) Etude typologique du Bou Regreg (Maroc): Les milieux aquatiques et leurs peuplements en macroinvertebres. Bulletin d'Ecologie, 23 (1 - 2), 103 - 113.
- Bouzidi, A. & Giudicelli, J. (1994) Ecologie et distribution spatiale des Macro-invertebres des eaux courantes du Haut-Atlas Marocain. Revue de la Faculte des Sciences de Marrakech, 8, 23 - 43.
- Azzouz, M. & Sanchez-Ortega, A (2000) Feeding of the nymphs of nine stonefly species (Insecta: Plecoptera) from North Africa (Rif Mountains, Morocco). Zoologica Baetica, 11, 35 - 50.