Updated check-list of the mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) of Iraq

Abstract

Based on a recent field survey in Iraqi Kurdistan and a critical evaluation of previously published data, 37 mayfly species are listed as occurring in Iraq. We collected and identified nine species as new for the country and corrected some previously published records. For several species scarcely treated in the literature, we provide information allowing their identification in the larval stage to promote the acquisition of reliable faunistic data from Iraq in the future.

The Tribe Hyrtanellini Allen, 1980 (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) of Western and Central Asia with Description of a New Species

“… Western Asia : *—There are no reliable published data about the diversity and distribution of tribe Hyrtanellini in Palestinian territories (PS), Egypt (EG), Jordan (JO), Saudi Arabia (SA), Yemen (YE), Oman (OM), United Arab Emirates (AE), Qatar (QA), Bahrain (BH) and Kuwait (KW). TR—Turkey (based on summarized data published by Kazanci and Türkmen [ 37 ] and Salur et al [ 7 ]; Kazanci [ 38 ]: original description of Quatica euphratica based on larvae from Eastern Anatolia; Kazanci [ 4 ]: original description of Serratella karia based on larvae from Western Anatolia); SY—Syria (based on Koch [ 39 ] and Marie et al [ 11 ]); LB—Lebanon (based on Marie et al [ 11 ]; original description of Teloganopsis bauernfeindi (Thomas, Marie and Dia, 1999) [in Marie, Dia and Thomas] based on larvae from Orontes River basin); IL—Israel (based on Sartori [ 5 ]); IQ—Iraq (based on Al-Zubaidi et al [ 40 ] and Khudhur & Sroka [ 9 ]); IR—Iran (based on summarized data published by Bojková et al [ 8 ]); AZ—Azerbaijan (based on Kasymov [ 41 ]: S. ignita reported from Nizami and Shusha Districts; Torleya sp. was also reported from Agdam District.…”

“…Serratella Edmunds, 1959, Torleya Lestage, 1917 and Quatica Jacobus & McCafferty, 2008 can be treated as such genera. Within Western and Central Asia, these genera were known with six species [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. Another genus of Hyrtanellini Allen, 1980 known from these territories is Teloganopsis Ulmer, 1939, presented here with four species [ 5 , 8 , 10 , 11 , 12 ].…”

A new species of Epeorus (Caucasiron) (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae) from Azerbaijan and Iran

“…The global distribution of Caucasiron includes the eastern Mediterranean islands (Samos and Cyprus), Turkey, the Caucasus, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Nepal, and India), and south-western China (Guizhou province) (e.g. Chen 2010; Bojková et al 2018;Hrivniak et al 2020a;Khudhur and Sroka 2021). The highest diversity is known in the Caucasus and adjacent areas (including Samos Island), where 15 species have been described to date (Hrivniak et al 2020a).…”