Protonemura dakkii Vincon & Muranyi 2009
Authors/Creators
- 1. 55 Bd Joseph Vallier, F 38100 Grenoble, France E-mail: vincon @ kls-logistic. fr
- 2. Université Abdelmalek Essaadi, Faculté des Sciences de Tétouan, Laboratoire Diversité et Conservation des systèmes biologiques (LDICOSYB), BP. 2121, 93000 Tétouan, Maroc. E-mail: majidae @ hotmail. com
- 3. Université Abdelmalek Essaadi, Faculté des Sciences de Tétouan, Laboratoire Diversité et Conservation des systèmes biologiques (LDICOSYB), BP. 2121, 93000 Tétouan, Maroc. E-mail: errochdi _ sanae @ yahoo. fr
Description
Protonemura algirica pro parte (Aubert 1961, specimens from Moroccan Middle-Atlas)
Material examined. Middle-Atlas: SE Khenifra, Sidi Yahia Ousaad, Oued Oum er Rbia tributary, lateral spring, 15.04.201 3, 1♂, 2♀; 8.06.201 3, 13♂, 3♀, normal winged (VIN); 14.11.201 3, 1♂ (VIN). High-Atlas: Midelt, spring above Tattiouine village, Moulouya tributary., 1700 m, 15.04.201 3, 1♀ apterous (VIN).
Distribution. First records from the High-Atlas. A moroccan endemic species which occurs in the High and Middle-Atlas.
Ecology. A crenophilic species which mainly occurs in karstic springs (Vinçon & Murányi 2009). In the Sidi Yahia Ousaad watershed, the adults where not found in the main brook but exclusively in the three lateral springs marked by the dark green color of the grass (Fig. 13, left side of the photo). These very small springs are covered with dense vegetation (Fig. 14). In the High-Atlas, it is only known from a large rheocrene spring above Tattiouine (Figs 15, 16). The adults mainly emerge in spring and early summer (IV-VII), but one male was also catch in autumn (XI).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- VIN
- Scientific name authorship
- Vincon & Muranyi
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Plecoptera
- Family
- Nemouridae
- Genus
- Protonemura
- Species
- dakkii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Protonemura dakkii &, 2009 sec. Vinçon, Alami & Errochdi, 2014
References
- Vincon, G. & D. Muranyi. 2009. Contribution to the knowledge of the Protonemura corsicana species group, with a revision of the North African species of the P. talboti subgroup (Plecoptera: Nemouridae). Illiesia, 5 (7): 51 - 79.
- Aubert, J. 1961. Contribution a l'etude des Plecopteres du Maroc. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 33 (1960): 213 - 222.