A general lack of complete inventories for aquatic beetles in Morocco

Belhaj, Abla; Sánchez‐Fernández, David; Chergui, Brahim; Bennas, Nard

doi:10.1007/s10841-022-00397-0

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“…Areas with greater completeness reflect a greater number of samples collected by researchers located in the nearest research centers and greater ease of access (Lobo, Martin-Piera 2002, Rodrigues et al 2010, Belhaj et al 2023b). The well-sampled parks (TLNP and BHNP) are located near Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, where there are specialists on aquatic insects in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science of Tetouan.…”

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“…Protected areas play a key role in the protection of biodiversity and are the mainstay of most conservation plans directed to avoid biodiversity loss (Belhaj et al . 2023a).…”

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New Data on Biodiversity and Chorology of Aquatic Insects of Tazekka National Park (Middle Atlas, Morocco) I: Odonata, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera

Belahcen,

Chergui,

Haissoufi

et al. 2023

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Aquatic insects play a crucial role in freshwater ecosystems, and their diversity and distribution are important indicators of ecosystem health. In this study, we present old and new faunistic and distributional data on three orders of aquatic insects (Odonata, Hemiptera, and Coleoptera) in the Tazekka National Park, located in the Eastern Middle Atlas. An annotated list of 85 species is provided, of which 53 were identified from 1023 specimens collected seasonally between summer 2018 and summer 2019 at a total of 19 sampling sites. The remaining 32 species were identified from the literature but were not captured in this study. The 85 species are classified into 47 genera and 24 families, which are divided into 8 species of Odonata, 14 species of aquatic Hemiptera, and 63 species of aquatic Coleoptera. Eighteen of the captured species are new to the Tazekka National Park.A chorological analysis shows that most species are essentially Mediterranean (63%), whilst those whose distribution is wider in Palearctic (25%) or extends into Nearctic, Australian, or Afrotropical regions (12%) are clearly less represented. This chorotype pattern is similar to that observed for OCH in other national parks in northern Morocco.

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New Data on Biodiversity and Chorology of Aquatic Insects of Tazekka National Park (Middle Atlas, Morocco) I: Odonata, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera

Belahcen,

Chergui,

Haissoufi

et al. 2023

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“…Determining the current distribution and population sizes requires long-term monitoring using appropriate collecting methods because data from most countries are probably deficient. In the case of Morocco, the lack of complete inventories of water beetles is due to a low number of specialists in that specific order and a lack of molecular biology laboratories as a crucial tool for taxonomic resolution (Belhaj et al 2022). Considerable information is still required to provide an accurate picture of aquatic insect richness patterns in Morocco and north-western Africa.…”

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Potamophilus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1792): distribution update in North Africa confirmed by COI barcoding sequencing (Coleoptera, Elmidae)

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Bennas²,

Goffová³

et al. 2022

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Potamophilus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1792) is here recorded for the first time from Morocco and the recent distribution in Slovakia is updated. The North African distribution was hitherto based only on two larvae from Tunisia. DNA-barcoding confirmed the identification of specimens from Morocco after comparing ten sequences of P. acuminatus from Germany, France and Slovakia. The COI haplotype of the Moroccan samples was quite divergent (0.033–0.035 uncorrected p-distance) compared with European specimens. These high p-distances suggest the existence of a different intraspecific lineage. A brief morphological diagnosis of adults and larvae is given.

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“…The tropical and subtropical rainforests of eastern Australia have been regarded as a major component of Australia's global hotspot, yet these rainforests have been reduced in extent by about 30% of its original area, and the growing impacts of global warming means they cannot be regarded as 'safe' from a conservation point of view (Kitching et al 2023). Despite the efforts conducted so far to compile data on water beetles in the Mediterranean hotspot, the information on the distribution of this insect group is scarce (Belhaj et al 2023). Clearly, conservation-planning in biodiversity hotspots should be supported by a good understanding of the geographical distribution of species.…”

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