diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF90F23780546D8ADAAFF9D8.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF90F23780546D8ADAAFF9D8.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4a38581cc5d --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF90F23780546D8ADAAFF9D8.xml @@ -0,0 +1,322 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus verbekei +Grootaert & Chvála, 1992 + + + + + + +Fig. 34 + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Amaghousse +; + +8 Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Jnane Niche +; + +8 Jan. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Afertane +; + +19 Dec. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Taida +; + +20 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Tanina +; + +22 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Azoumagh +; + +2 May 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +1 ♂ +; beach of +Briyech +; + +5 Jan. 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg. + +; + + + +Fig. 34. + +Platypalpus verbekei +Grootaert & Chvála, 1992 + +, ♂, habitus (Oued Azoumagh, RBINS). + + + +LESCB +• + +1 ♂ +; beach of +Briyech +; + +9 Jan. 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB +. – + +High Atlas + + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Tahannaout +; + +25 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + + + +Distribution outside +Morocco + + + + +Algeria +, +France +, +Spain +( +Grootaert & Chvála 1992 +; + +De Jong +et al +. 2014 + +; + +Ventura +et al +. 2015 + +). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +This is the first record of + +Platypalpus verbekei + +from +Morocco +and the second record from North Africa after its report by + +Ventura +et al +. (2015) + +from +Algeria +.According to the original description in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +from +France +, the Moroccan specimen is entirely compatible with the morphological description and the genitalia illustrations. It is also compatible with the Algerian specimen re-described and illustrated by + +Ventura +et al +. (2015) + +. + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF91F228806E6D25DCCBF9DA.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF91F228806E6D25DCCBF9DA.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4337ccb2400 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF91F228806E6D25DCCBF9DA.xml @@ -0,0 +1,384 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus chrysonotus +Strobl, 1899 + + + + + + +Fig. 33 + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +3 ♂♂ +; +Barrage Moulay Bouchta +; + +5 Apr. 2014 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Jbel Zemzem +; + +17 Apr. 2014 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Perdicaris +; + +16 May 2015 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +3 ♂♂ +; +Adrou +; + +14–15 Jul. 2015 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Sifalaou +; + +17 Apr. 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Oued Souk Elhad +; + +30 Apr. 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Farda +; + +16 May 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Achetta +; + +22 Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +F.Z. Sliman +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Rahbat Amlay +; + +2 May 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Oued Azoumagh +; + +2 Dec. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Ametrasse +; + +20 May 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg. + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Rmel +; + +16 May 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +M. Nourti +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Eastern Morocco + +• +6 ♂♂ +; +Ain Chebak +; + +9 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +N.H. El Ouazzani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +2 ♂♂ +; +Oued Imlil +; + +25 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + +Fig. 33. + +Platypalpus chrysonotus +Strobl, 1899 + +, ♂, habitus (Oued Farda, LESCB). + + + + +Moroccan literature records + + + +Rif: Oued Laou ( + +Ebejer +et al +. 2019 + +). + + + + + + +Distribution outside +Morocco + + + + +Algeria +, +Spain +, +Tunisia +( +Grootaert & Chvála 1992 +). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +This is the first record of + +Platypalpus chrysonotus + +from the Eastern and High Atlas regions. + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF92F229806A6E90DC37FA6E.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF92F229806A6E90DC37FA6E.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..972337bd8fb --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF92F229806A6E90DC37FA6E.xml @@ -0,0 +1,300 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus ostiorum +(Becker, 1902) + + + + + + +Fig. 32 + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Amaghousse +; + +8 Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Oued Afertane +; + +19 Dec. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♀ +, +1 ♂ +; +Barrage Talembote +; + +19 Dec. 2020 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Talembote +( +Usine +électrique); + +16 Mar. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS + +. – + + +Middle Atlas + +• +2 ♂♂ +; +Dayat Zarhoun +; + +1 Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +Y. Fekrani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +; +Amizmiz +; + +24 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS + +. – + + +Anti-Atlas + +• +1 ♀ +; +Taliouine +; + +2 Dec. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + +Moroccan literature records + + + +Grootaert & Chvála 1992 +. + + + + + + +Distribution outside +Morocco + + + + +Algeria +, +Corsica +, +Egypt +, +Italy +, +Malta +, +Spain +, +Tunisia +( +Grootaert & Chvála 1992 +; + +De Jong +et al +. 2014 + +). + + + + +Fig. 32. + +Platypalpus ostiorum +(Becker, 1902) + +, ♂, habitus (Amaghousse, LESCB). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +mentioned that + +Platypalpus ostiorum + +exists in +Morocco +, but no detailed records were given. Our records confirm the presence of this species in the country from the Rif and the Middle, High and Anti-Atlas regions. + + + +Platypalpus pallidiventris +-cursitans + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF93F22A83B369B3DB92FA2F.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF93F22A83B369B3DB92FA2F.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..254730dd262 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF93F22A83B369B3DB92FA2F.xml @@ -0,0 +1,830 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus anomalitarsis +Chvála & Kovalev, 1974 + + + + + + +Fig. 31 + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Oued Mhannech +; + +13 Dec. 2013 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Merj Lkhayl +; + +11 Dec. 2015 + +; +sweep net +; +K. 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Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +El Maounzel +; + +27 Mar. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +, +2 ♀♀ +; +Lalla Outka +; + +27 Mar. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Medchar Lemtahene +; + +9 Apr. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +4 ♂♂ +, +18 ♀♀ +; +Bni Bounsar +; + +1–30 Apr. 2022 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Atlantic Plain + +• +1 ♂ +; +Forest of Maâmora +; + +5 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Middle Atlas + +• +1 ♀ +; +Tazekka +summit; + +23 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Chiker +; + +13 Mar. 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Boughayati +; + +14 Mar. 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +5 ♂♂ +, +2 ♀♀ +; +Moudmame Forest +; + +12 Oct. 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +L. 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Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + +Fig. 31. + +Platypalpus anomalitarsis +Chvála & Kovalev, 1974 + +, ♂, habitus (Amsemlil, LESCB). + + + + +Moroccan literature records + + + +Middle Atlas: Ifrane; Anti-Atlas: Errachidia ( + +Ebejer +et al. +2019 + +; + +Kettani +et al. +2022 + +). + + + + + + +Distribution outside +Morocco + + + + +Algeria +, +Spain +( + +De Jong +et al +. 2014 + +; + +Ventura +et al. +2015 + +). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +This is the first record of + +Platypalpus anomalitarsis + +from the Rif, Atlantic Plain and High Atlas regions. + + + +Platypalpus minutus + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF94F22B806A682FDBE3FD33.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF94F22B806A682FDBE3FD33.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e274071bd04 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF94F22B806A682FDBE3FD33.xml @@ -0,0 +1,225 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus boreoalpinus +Frey, 1943 + + + + + + +Fig. 30 + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♀ +; +Oued Tassikeste +; + +5 Jan. 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Atlantic Plain + +• +2 ♂♂ +; +Forest of Maâmora +; + +5 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +; +Timalizene +; + +24 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + +Fig. 30. + +Platypalpus boreoalpinus +Frey, 1943 + +, ♂, habitus (Timalizene, LESCB). + + + + + + +Distribution outside +Morocco + + + + +Austria +, +Czech Republic +, +Finland +, +Germany +, +Italy +, +Norway +, +Russia +, +Sweden +, +Switzerland +( + +De Jong +et al +. 2014 + +). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +This is the first record of + +Platypalpus boreoalpinus + +from +Morocco +and North Africa. Its morphology corresponds completely to the description in +Chvála (1975) +. +Barták & Kubík (2016) +discussed the variability in the male genitalia of this species. With regard to our specimens, the male genitalia agree exactly with that illustrated by +Chvála (1975) +. + + + +Platypalpus nigritarsis + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF95F22C807669EFDBE9FD6F.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF95F22C807669EFDBE9FD6F.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d77fac1d738 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF95F22C807669EFDBE9FD6F.xml @@ -0,0 +1,323 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus anomalicerus +(Becker, 1902) + + + + + + +Fig. 29 + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♀ +; +Oued Laou +; + +16 Mar. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Middle Atlas + +• +1 ♀ +; +Zaouyat Ifrane +; + +2 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Oum Rbiaa +; + +1 May 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +3 ♂♂ +, +2 ♀♀ +; +Bni Tadjite +; + +9 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +33 ♂♂ +, +35 ♀♀ +; same collection data as for preceding; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Tahannaout +; + +25 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Anti-Atlas + +• +1 ♀ +; +Boudnibe + +; + + + +Fig. 29. + +Platypalpus anomalicerus +(Becker, 1902) + +, ♂, habitus (Boudnibe, LESCB). + + + + + +3 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +23 ♂♂ +, +17 ♀♀ +; +Bouanane +; + +5 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +Y. Fekrani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♀ +; +Aoufouss +; + +26 Sep. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + +Moroccan literature records + + + +Eastern +Morocco +: Oued Guir; Anti-Atlas: +Agadir +( +Séguy 1941 +; +Grootaert & Chvála 1992 +; + +Kettani +et al. +2022 + +). + + + + + + +Distribution outside +Morocco + + + + +Algeria +, +Egypt +, +Italy +( +Raffone 2005 +). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +This is the first record of + +Platypalpus anomalicerus + +from the Rif, Middle Atlas and High Atlas regions. + + + +Platypalpus longicornis + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF96F22D807969EADBF0FD16.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF96F22D807969EADBF0FD16.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a71f241d884 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF96F22D807969EADBF0FD16.xml @@ -0,0 +1,241 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus albocapillatus +Fallén, 1815 + + + + + + +Fig. 28 + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Oued El Kannar +(Douar Assoul); + +28 Feb. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Amrah +; + +15 May 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +F.Z. Sliman +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +Bouzmella +; + +24 May 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Menouar +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + +Fig. 28. + +Platypalpus albocapillatus +Fallén, 1815 + +, male habitus (Oued El Kannar (Douar Assoul), RBINS). + + + + + + +Distribution outside +Morocco + + + + +Belgium +, +Denmark +, +Estonia +, +Finland +, +Germany +, +Great Britain +, +Hungary +, +Ireland +, +Italy +, +Netherlands +, +Norway +, +Poland +, +Russia +, +Sweden +, +Switzerland +, +Ukraine +( +Szadziewski 1979 +; +Raffone 2002 +; + +De Jong +et al +. 2014 + +). + + + + + +Remarks + + + +This is the first record of + +Platypalpus albocapillatus + +from +Morocco +as well as the whole of North Africa. The Moroccan specimens correspond perfectly with the morphological description in +Chvála (1973) +. The genitalia agree exactly in all details (shape of cerci and of the left and right lamellae) with that illustrated by +Chvála (1973 +, +1975 +). + + + +Platypalpus unguiculatus + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF99F22E839D6E0CDB92FD12.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF99F22E839D6E0CDB92FD12.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..84eccca3840 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF99F22E839D6E0CDB92FD12.xml @@ -0,0 +1,408 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus brevicornoides +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +DD45D146-EFEE-4153-853B-2B7DA003353B + + + + + +Figs 26–27 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A small black species ( +2.3 mm +long) of the + +brevicornis + +group, with two pairs of long black verticals. Antennae black, postpedicel conical, 2× as long as deep, stylus 3× as long as postpedicel. Thorax with mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe greyish dusted and pleura greyish dusted, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow with hind four coxae, fore femur dorsally, a patch on apical third of mid femur dorsally, apical third of hind femur dorsally and fore metatarsus brownish except for yellow apex, hind metatarsus brownish apically, four apical tarsi dark brown except for yellowish base of tarsomeres 2–3, last tarsal segment dilated. Mid tibia with a short, pointed, black apical spur. Wings hyaline with veins R +4+5 +and M +1+2 +almost parallel before meeting wing margin. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This species is named after its similarity to + +P. brevicornis + +. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Chellal Akchour; + +17 Mar. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS +. + + +Paratypes + + + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +3 ♂♂ +; +Oued Sahil +; + +5 Apr. 2014 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Sifalaou +; + +17 Apr. 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Douar Hammadech +; + +6 Jan. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Barrage Talembote +; + +19 Dec. 2020 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +3 ♂♂ +; +Douar El Hamma +; + +8 Jan. 2020 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Amrah +; + +15 May 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +M. Nourti +leg.; +RBINS + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +2 ♂♂ +; +Bni Tadjite +; + +9 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.3 mm +; wing: +2.2 mm +. + + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput densely greyish pollinose with short pale setae, two pairs of long black verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose with long pale setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose with two black, moderately long anterior setae and two pairs of short black posterior setae. Frons greyish dusted, slightly broader than pedicel. Face yellowish dusted, narrower than pedicel. Clypeus short, polished. Antennae entirely black ( +Fig. 27A +; in some specimens, pedicel yellow at base, +Fig. 27B +), postpedicel conical, 2× as long as deep, stylus 3× as long as postpedicel. Proboscis brown, shorter than head is high. Palpus yellow, ovate, with scattered pale setulae and two long yellow subapical setae. + +THORAX. Black. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe greyish dusted. Pleura greyish dusted leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 long black seta and 2 minute setulae. Mesoscutum with 2 notopleurals (anterior long brown, posterior yellow and shorter), 1 long black postalar, 2 long, strong black prescutellars, 4 black scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair short); acrostichals yellow, biserial; dorsocentrals yellow, biserial, as long as acrostichals. + +LEGS. Yellow with hind four coxae, fore femur dorsally, a patch on apical third of mid femur dorsally, apical third of hind femur dorsally (in dark specimens also fore and mid tibia ventrally, apical and basal parts of hind tibia darker brown, +Fig. 27B +), fore metatarsus brownish except for yellow apex, hind metatarsus brownish apically, four apical tarsi dark brown except for yellowish base of tarsomeres 2–3, last tarsal segment dilated. CoXae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur thickened, with pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia somewhat thickened, clothed with ordinary yellow setulae, bearing 5–6 dark setae dorsally. Mid femur as thick as fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long, yellow posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, clothed with ordinary short setae, with row of ventral spinules and a short, pointed, black apical spur. Hind femur slender, with two ventral rows of long yellow setulae. Hind tibia slender, slightly shorter than femur, covered with ordinary pale setulae. + + + +Fig. 26. + +Platypalpus brevicornoides +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium, dorsal view. +C +. Left cercus in lateral view, left epandrial lamella and apex of hypandrium. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +WINGS. Hyaline, with paler brownish veins. Veins R 4+5 and M 1+2 parallel throughout. Crossveins m-cu and r-m slightly separated, bm much larger and slightly longer than br. Vein Cu +2 +straight, recurrent at base. Vein Cu reaching wing border. Anal vein indistinct. Squama yellowish with long yellow setae. Haltere whitish. + + +ABDOMEN. With tergites blackish, polished, covered with short pale setae. Sternites blackish brown, polished with similar setation. Male terminalia with both cerci equally long ( +Fig. 26B +). Right cercus club-shaped, with a slightly swollen tip, left cercus digitiform with an excavation on left side ( +Fig. 26B–C +). Left epandrial lamella bears regularly spaced setae on right side, longer on left border ( +Fig. 26C +). Right border bears a distinct protrusion densely set with microtrichia. + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +P. brevicornis +Zetterstedt, 1842 + +(couplet 217), but as described by +Chvála (1975) +, the acrostichals are dark brown and 5-serial, the dorsocentrals are dark brown and multiserial, while in the new species the acrostichals are yellow and quadriserial, the dorsocentrals are yellow and uniserial. The legs in + +P. brevicornis + +are yellowish including all coxae, and just the basal two-thirds of the femora are brownish, whereas in the new species the legs are yellow with the hind four coxae brown, only the fore coxa is yellow, and the fore femur dorsally, a patch on the apical third of the mid femur dorsally, the apical third of the hind femur, the fore and mid tibia ventrally, and the apical and basal parts of the hind tibia are also darker brown. The fore metatarsus in the new species is brownish except for the yellow apex, the hind metatarsus is yellow, brownish apically, and the four apical tarsi of all legs are almost entirely brownish (except for the yellowish base), whereas all tarsi in + +P. brevicornis + +are entirely brown. They differ also in the colour of posteroventral setae, which are black in + +P. brevicornis + +and yellow in the new species. The genitalia of the two species are completely different (compare +Chvála 1975 +: figs 498–500 with +Fig. 26 +). + + + +Fig. 27. + +Platypalpus brevicornoides +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, ♂♂, habitus. +A +. Specimen with antennae entirely black (holotype, RBINS). +B +. Specimen with pedicel yellow at the base and the legs with fore and mid tibia ventrally, and apical and basal parts of hind tibia dark (paratype from Amrah, RBINS). Scale bars = 0.5 mm. + + + +Additional new records + + + +Platypalpus albiseta + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF9CF22183B66A50DBEEFAB3.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF9CF22183B66A50DBEEFAB3.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3e40621fe3e --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF9CF22183B66A50DBEEFAB3.xml @@ -0,0 +1,588 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus shamshevi +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +8C1BEA1C-BDBD-4C76-89E3-6613D4028B8A + + + + + +Figs 23–24 +, +25B + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +Small black species ( +2.5 mm +long) of the +pallidiventris-cursitans +group, with one pair of long black verticals. Antennae black with postpedicel broader, conical, slightly elongate, about 2.5× as long as wide at base, stylus about 2 × as long as postpedicel. Thorax with mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely greyish dusted, pleura densely greyish dusted, leaving a polished small spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow with hind coxae, knees of mid and hind legs, hind femora and hind tibia at tip, and all tarsi blackish brown. Mid tibia with a sharp, pointed, black spur, as long as tibia is deep. Wings faintly brown infuscate with vein M +1+2 +conspicuously bowed before meeting wing margin, vein R +4+5 +rather straight. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This species is dedicated to Dr Igor Shamshev, an expert on +Hybotidae +who has described and published many new species in the superfamily +Empidoidea +. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Chamaa; + +17 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratypes + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Jbel Zemzem +; + +17 Apr. 2014 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Chellal Akchour +; + +6 Apr. 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Sifalaou +; + +17 Apr. 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Merja Sidi Lhaj Merzouk +; + +30 Apr. 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +3 ♂♂ +; same collection data as for preceding; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued Machekralla +; + +8 May 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Kharrouba +; + +8 May 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +3 ♂♂ +, +3 ♀♀ +; +Oued El Koub +; + +23Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +3 ♀♀ +; +Triwa +; + +27Apr. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Chamaa +; + +17 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +, +2 ♀♀ +; +Tafoughalt +; + +5 May 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +M. Doukale +; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Ametrasse +; + +20 May 2022 + +; sweep; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; forest of +Kourt +( +Oued Lmalha +); + +22 May 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +.– + + +Middle Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +; +Ain Leuh +; + +5May2019 + +; +sweep net +; +S.Fekrani +leg.; +LESCB + +.– + + +High Atlas + +• +6 ♂♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +Ourika +; + +9 Apr. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + +Fig. 23. + +Platypalpus shamshevi +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.5 mm +; wing: 2.0 mm. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput densely greyish pollinose with short black setae, one pair of long black verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose with long black setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose, with 2 long black anterior and 2 very short yellow posterior setae. Frons densely greyish dusted, broader than pedicel and parallel-sided. Face greyish dusted, slightly broader than pedicel. Clypeus polished and short. Antennae black, with pedicel as long as deep, postpedicel broader, conical, slightly elongate, about 2.5× as long as wide at base, stylus black, about 2× as long as postpedicel. Proboscis blackish, shorter than head is high. Palpus yellow, elongate ovate, with scattered pale setulae and one long, yellow subapical seta. + + +Fig. 24. + +Platypalpus shamshevi +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, ♂, habitus (holotype, RBINS). + + +THORAX. Black. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely greyish dusted, pleura densely greyish dusted, leaving a polished small spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 long yellow seta and 2 minute yellow setulae. Mesoscutum with 2 notopleurals, 1 long black postalar, 1 pair of long black prescutellars, 4 yellow scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair very short), acrostichals yellow, biserial, dorsocentrals yellow, uniserial, as long as acrostichals. +LEGS. Yellow with posterior four coxae, hind trochanters, knees of mid and hind legs, hind femora at tip, hind tibiae at tip and all tarsi blackish brown. Coxae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur moderately thickened, with pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia spindle-shaped, clothed with ordinary pale setulae. Mid femur slightly thicker than fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long, yellow posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, with a row of ventral spinules and a short, black, blunt apical spur. Hind femur slender, clothed with ordinary short yellow setulae. Hind tibia slender, slightly shorter than femur, with ordinary short dark setulae. + +WINGS. Faintly brown infuscate, with brown veins, paler in basal part of wing. Costa with one moderately long brown seta. Vein M +1+2 +conspicuously bowed before meeting wing margin, vein R +4+5 +rather straight. Crossveins m-cu and r-m separated, bm distinctly longer and larger than br. Vein Cu +2 +slightly sinuate, recurrent in basal part. Vein Cu reaching wing border. Anal vein distinct in median part and evanscent in basal and apical parts. Squama blackish. Haltere whitish. + + + +Fig. 25. +Comparison of left epandrial lamella with internal structures. +A +. + +Platypalpus nigritellus +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +(holotype, RBINS). +B +. + +P. shamshevi +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +(holotype, RBINS). Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +ABDOMEN. With brown tergites, subshining, covered with pale setae. Sternites brown, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 23 +) with apex of left cercus long, pointed, bent to the inside ( +Fig. 23B +). + + +Female + +Resembling male. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +P. cothurnatus +Macquart, 1827 + +(couplet 92). According to its description in +Chvála (1975) +, + +P. cothurnatus + +resembles the new species by having one pair of verticals, the antennae black with the postpedicel about 2–2.5 × as long as deep, the stylus 2× as long as the pedicel, the acrostichals biserial and the dorsocentrals uniserial. However, there are some differences in the legs: in + +P. cothurnatus + +the legs are yellow with the two apical tarsal segments black, whereas in the new species the legs are also yellow, but the posterior four coxae, the hind trochanters, the knees of the mid and hind legs, the hind femora at the tip, the hind tibiae at the tip and all the tarsi are blackish brown. The genitalia of the two species are also similar, but they differ in the left cercus, which has a long, pointed apex ( +Fig. 23B +), bent to the inside, in the new species, while in + +P. cothurnatus + +( +Chvála 1975 +: figs 416–418) the apeX is not long and not very pointed. The left epandrial lamella of the two species is very different. + + +At first sight the male terminalia of + +Platypalpus shamshevi + +sp. nov. +and + +P. nigritellus + +sp. nov. +are quite similar, and therefore the two species are compared here: they do not belong to the same group and it is easy to distinguish between them morphologically, especially since the legs are entirely blackish in + +P. nigritellus + +, while in + +P. shamshevi + +only the tarsi, the posterior four coxae and the hind femora and tibiae at the tip are blackish brown, with a row of ventral spinules on the mid tibia which is lacking in + +P. nigritellus + +. The genitalia of the two species are somewhat similar, but can be distinguished by the right surstylus, which is shorter in + +P. nigritellus + +( +Fig. 21A +) than in + +P. shamshevi + +( +Fig. 23A +), the left cercus is more elongate pointed in + +P. shamshevi + +than in + +P. nigritellus + +and the internal structures on the inside of the left epandrial lamella are also different (compared in +Fig. 25A–B +). + + + +Platypalpus brevicornis + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF9FF22483B76F90DB78FEF4.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF9FF22483B76F90DB78FEF4.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..943ef15d252 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FF9FF22483B76F90DB78FEF4.xml @@ -0,0 +1,260 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus nigritellus +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +3D43B29F-75DE-4F1A-AA70-910918E2B9E9 + + + + + +Figs 21–22 +, +25A + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A small dark species ( +2.3 mm +long) of the +pallidiventris-cursitans +group, with one pair of verticals. Antennae blackish brown with postpedicel broader, elongate, about 3 × as long as wide at base, stylus about 1.5× as long as postpedicel. Thorax with mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe greyish dusted, pleura greyish dusted leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Legs entirely blackish brown including coxae and tarsi, with only knees of fore legs and fore femur at tip somewhat yellowish. Mid tibia with short, flattened, black apical spur. Wings faintly brown infuscate with veins R 4+5 and M 1+2 slightly convergent just before meeting wing margin. + + + + + +Etymology + + +This species is named after the black colour of the body. + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +High Atlas + +• +♂ +; Amizmiz; + +24 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +High Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +; Moulay Brahim; + +25 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.3 mm +; wing: +2.2 mm +. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput densely greyish pollinose with long pale setae, one pair of verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose with long pale setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose. Frons densely greyish pollinose, narrower than postpedicel at base, somewhat broader toward ocellar tubercle. Face greyish dusted, narrower than pedicel. Clypeus polished and very short. Antennae blackish brown, postpedicel broader at base, somewhat triangular, elongate, about 3 × as long as wide at base, stylus about 1.5× as long as postpedicel. Proboscis blackish, shorter than head is high. Palpus brown, elongate ovate, with scattered pale setulae and one long yellow subapical seta. +THORAX. Black. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe greyish dusted, pleura greyish dusted, leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 weak, short, yellow seta. Mesoscutum with 2 long black notopleurals, 1 pair of brown prescutellars, 1 brown postalar, 4 brown scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair very short and weak), acrostichals yellow, biserial, dorsocentrals yellow, uniserial, as long as acrostichals. +LEGS. Entirely blackish brown including coxae and tarsi, with fore knees and fore femora at tip somewhat yellowish. CoXae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur moderately thickened, with pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia thickened, clothed with ordinary pale setulae. Mid femur as thick as fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long, yellow posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, with ordinary short pale setae and very small, short, flattened, black apical spur. Hind femur slender, clothed with ordinary pale setulae. Hind tibia slender, as long as femur, covered with ordinary pale setulae. + +WINGS. Uniformly faintly brown infuscate, with brown veins. Costa with one moderately long brown seta. Veins R +4+5 +and M +1+2 +slightly convergent just before meeting wing margin. Crossveins m-cu and r-m separated, bm longer and larger than br. Vein Cu +2 +straight. Vein Cu not reaching wing border. Anal vein distinct in apical part and evanescent in basal part. Squama yellowish, with long pale setae. Haltere yellowish. + + + +Fig. 21. + +Platypalpus nigritellus +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +ABDOMEN. With brown tergites, subshining, covered with long pale setae. Sternites brown, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 21 +) with apex of left cercus long, pointed, bent to the inside ( +Fig. 21B +). + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +P. pragensis +Chvála 1989 + +(couplet 90). According to the original description of + +P. pragensis + +, it is very close to the new species described above by having these same main characters: one pair of verticals, antennae with postpedicel broad at base, triangular, 2.5–3× as long as deep, stylus slightly longer than postpedicel, thoracic hairs yellow, acrostichals biserial, fore femur with antero- and posteroventral setae, and mid tibia with very short, blunt apical spur. However, the two species differ in the colour of some parts of the legs: they are yellow in + +P. pragensis + +with the coxae brown, the fore femur is brown except for the tip, the posterior four femora are yellow with brown tips, the tibia is brown and the tarsi are completely blackish brown, while in the new species all legs are entirely dark blackish brown, with only the fore knees and the fore femur at the tip somewhat yellowish brown. Unfortunately, no illustrations of the male terminalia of + +P. pragensis + +have been provided, but Chvála wrote that the cerci are short and blunt, while in the new species the cerci are long and the tip of the left cercus is prolonged and curved inwards ( +Fig. 21 +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA1F22783B36918DB32FBCD.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA1F22783B36918DB32FBCD.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c81e2beb4d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA1F22783B36918DB32FBCD.xml @@ -0,0 +1,324 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus imlilensis +Grootaert & Zouhair + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +60254BDF-034F-4FC1-994D-23CAF73C03EF + + + + + +Figs 19–20 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A small brown species ( +2.8 mm +long) of the +pallidiventris-cursitans +group, with one pair of long yellow verticals. Antennae dirty yellow with extreme tip of pedicel at insertion of stylus darker, stylus black, postpedicel conical, slightly elongate, about 2.3× as long as wide at base, stylus about 2.5 × as long as postpedicel. Thorax with mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely yellowish dusted, pleura densely yellowish dusted, leaving a polished small spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow including coxae, with fore tarsi sharply annulated dark brown, mid and hind tarsi annulated paler brown. Fore tibia with a small brown spot near apex. Mid tibia with a sharp, pointed, black apical spur, as long as tibia is wide. Wings with veins M +1+2 +and R +4+5 +almost parallel before reaching wing border. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This new species is named after the type locality (Oued Imlil), located in the High Atlas, where the +holotype +was collected. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +High Atlas + +• +♂ +; Oued Imlil; + +25 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratypes + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Middle Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +; +Zaouyat Ifrane +; + +2 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Lac Ouiouane +; + +9 Jun. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +2 ♂♂ +; same collection data as for holotype; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Lac Tislit +; + +29 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Anti Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +Boudnibe +; + +3 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.8 mm +; wing: 3.0 mm. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput densely greyish pollinose, with short pale setae, one pair of long yellow verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose with long yellow setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose with 2 long, yellow anterior setae and 2 very short, yellow posterior setae. Frons greyish dusted, broader than postpedicel is wide at base and parallel-sided. Face densely yellowish dusted, narrower than postpedicel is wide at base, but broader toward clypeus. Clypeus short, polished. Antennae dirty yellow, with extreme tip of pedicel at insertion of stylus darker, stylus black, pedicel as long as deep, postpedicel conical, slightly elongate, about 2.5× as long as wide at base, stylus about 2.5× as long as postpedicel. Proboscis brownish, shorter than head is high. Palpus whitish yellow, ovate (not strapshaped), with numerous long, pale yellow setae. +THORAX. Brown. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely yellowish dusted, pleura densely yellowish dusted, leaving a polished small spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 long yellow seta. Mesoscutum with 2 notopleurals, 1 long yellow postalar, 2 pairs of yellow prescutellars (one strong, long pair, one short, weak pair), 4 yellow scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair very short), acrostichals yellow, biserial, dorsocentrals yellow, uniserial, as long as acrostichals. +LEGS. Yellow including coxae, with fore tarsi sharply annulated dark brown, mid and hind tarsi annulated paler brown (in some specimens, annulations of mid tarsi slightly darker than on hind tarsi). Coxae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur distinctly thickened in basal third, with pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia slightly thickened, clothed with ordinary pale setulae, with a small brown spot near base (absent in some specimens or much paler). Mid femur as thick as fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long, yellow posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, with a row of ventral spinules and a sharp, pointed, black apical spur, as long as tibia is wide. Hind femur slender, clothed with ordinary yellow setulae. Hind tibia slender, as long as femur, with ordinary short, yellow setulae. + +WINGS. Hyaline, with pale yellow veins. Costa with one moderately long yellow seta. Vein M +1+2 +and vein R +4+5 +almost parallel before reaching wing border. Crossveins m-cu and r-m separate, bm distinctly longer and larger than br. Vein Cu +2 +straight, recurrent in basal part. Vein Cu reaching wing border. Anal vein distinct. Squama yellowish. Haltere whitish. + + +ABDOMEN. With yellowish brown tergites, dusted, covered with pale setae. Sternites yellowish, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 19 +) with small cerci, concealed in epandrium. Right border of right epandrial lamella with a brush of long setae near middle ( +Fig. 19A +). Left epandrial lamella with apical part of right margin and apex with long setae. Left margin with a brush of very long, densely set setae near middle ( +Fig. 19C +). + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +Platypalpus flavicornis +Meigen, 1822 + +(couplet 156). According to the description in +Chvála (1975) +, + +P. flavicornis + +is very close to + +P. imlilensis + +sp. nov. +: they both have one pair of yellow verticals, the antennae are yellow with a dark stylus, but in the new species the postpedicel is darker at the extreme tip and longer than in + +P. flavicornis + +. The katepisternum has only a small polished spot in both species, the acrostichals are biserial and the dorsocentrals are uniserial in both species. The legs in + +P. flavicornis + +are yellow and all tarsi have sharp blackish-brown to black annulations, while in the new species the legs are also yellow with annulated tarsi, but only the fore tarsi are sharply dark brown annulated, the mid and hind tarsi being paler brown annulated. The genitalia of the two species are clearly different, especially in the shape of the cerci and the left epandrial lamella (compare +Chvála 1975 +: figs 480–482 with +Fig. 19 +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA4F21980566F0EDCC2FE44.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA4F21980566F0EDCC2FE44.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4ff84ef145c --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA4F21980566F0EDCC2FE44.xml @@ -0,0 +1,417 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus pauli +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +AB7BEDEF-4ABF-4FB6-A746-51B5E8BCD922 + + + + + +Figs 17–18 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A small black species ( +2.5 mm +long) of the +pallidiventris-cursitans +group, with one pair of long yellow verticals. Antennae with both basal segments yellow, postpedicel blackish but somewhat yellowish at base, about 3× as long as wide at base. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely yellowish dusted, pleura densely grey dusted leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Legs entirely yellow including coxae, but tarsi black annulated. Fore tibia with a dorsal row of moderately long, somewhat thick brownish setae. Mid tibia with a long, sharp apical spur. Wings hyaline with veins R 4+5 and M 1+2 convergent just before meeting wing margin. + + + + + +Etymology + + +This new species is named after Dr Paul Gatt, an expert of hybotid fauna, for his great dedication to the study of this dipteran family. + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Ametrasse; + +20 May 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratypes + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +2 ♂♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +Medchar Lemtahene +; + +27 Apr. 2012 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +Oued Khemis +; + +10 Apr. 2014 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Oued Boumarouil +; + +10 May 2014 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +4 ♂♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +Oued Sifalaou +; + +17 Apr. 2016 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Rahbat Amlay +; + +2 May 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; same collection data as for holotype; +LESCB + +. – + + +Eastern Morocco + +• +1 ♂ +; +Ain Chebak +; + +9 Apr. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +N.H. El Ouazzani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Atlantic Plain + +• +1 ♂ +; +Guiche Loudaya +; + +10 Apr. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +1 ♂ +; +Ain Tafraout +; + +25 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.5 mm +; wing: +2.8 mm +. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput densely greyish pollinose (yellowish pollinose toward ocellar tubercle) with short pale setae and one pair of long yellow verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose with long pale setae. Ocellar tubercle yellowish pollinose, with 2 moderately long, yellow anterior setae and 2 very short, yellow posterior setae. Frons densely greyish pollinose, narrower than pedicel, somewhat broader toward ocellar tubercle. Face greyish dusted, narrower than postpedicel at base. Clypeus polished and short. Antennae with both basal segments brownish yellow, postpedicel blackish but somewhat yellowish at base, conical, slightly elongate, about 3× as long as wide at base, stylus black, about 1.5 × as long as postpedicel. Proboscis blackish, rather long, somewhat shorter than head is high. Palpus yellow, somewhat large, elongate ovate, with scattered pale setulae and two long yellow subapical setae. +THORAX. Black. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely yellowish dusted, pleura densely grey dusted, leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 long yellow seta and 2 minute yellow setae. Mesoscutum with 2 yellow notopleurals, 1 yellow postalar, 2 pairs of long yellow prescutellars, 4 yellow scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair very short), acrostichals yellow, biserial, dorsocentrals yellow, uniserial, as long as acrostichals. +LEGS. Entirely yellow including coxae, tarsi dark brown annulated. Coxae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur thickened, with short, pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia swollen, clothed with ordinary brown setulae, with a dorsal row of moderately long, somewhat thick brownish setae. Mid femur much thicker than fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long, yellow posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, with ordinary short setae and a long, sharp, largely black apical spur, longer than tibia is deep. Hind femur slender, with a ventral row of black spinules. Hind tibia slender, shorter than femur, with a dorsal row of short, somewhat thick brown setulae. + + +Fig. 17. + +Platypalpus pauli +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci. +C +. Apex of right surstylus. +D +. Left epandrial lamella. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +WINGS. Hyaline, with paler brownish veins. Costa with one moderately long black seta. Veins R +4+5 +and M 1+2 convergent just before meeting wing margin. Crossveins m-cu and r-m separated, bm distinctly longer than br. Vein Cu 2 straight. Vein Cu reaching wing border. Anal vein distinct in apical part and evanescent in basal part. Squama yellowish. Haltere whitish. + + +ABDOMEN. With brown tergites, subshining, covered with pale setae. Sternites paler brown, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 17 +) with cerci confined to epandrial capsule. Cerci equally long. ApeX of left cercus with a pointed protrusion at left side ( +Fig. 17B +). Apical margin of right surstylus set with long setae ( +Fig. 17C +). Left border of left epandrial lamella with very short setae on apical half, on basal half densely set with long setae ( +Fig. 17D +). + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The black postpedicel with its yellow base, the presence of only 2 notopleural setae and the swollen fore tibia will lead to + +P. annulitarsis +Kovalev, 1978 + +(couplet 168) in the key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +. The male of + +P. annulitarsis + +has a long but rounded spur as in + +P. annulipes +(Meigen, 1822) + +( +Kovalev 1978 +: fig. 2), the tarsi are dark annulated with the fore tarsi very sharply so ( +Chvála 1989 +) and the left epandrial lamella has a rounded basal projection bearing long setae. In + +P. pauli + +sp. nov. +, the spur on the mid tibia is sharply pointed as in + +P. stabilis +Collin, 1961 + +, all tarsi are dark annulated and the left side of the left epandrial lamella is not protruding. In + +P. stabilis + +the clypeus is dusted, while it is polished in the new species, the anterior four femora are equally thickened, while the mid femora are more thickened than the fore femora in + +P. pauli + +, and the left side of the left epandrial lamella is set over its entire length with long setae ( +Chvála 1975 +), while they are confined to the basal half in the new species. + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA6F21C83AF6A24DD03FC57.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA6F21C83AF6A24DD03FC57.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9bbfef584d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA6F21C83AF6A24DD03FC57.xml @@ -0,0 +1,271 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus fatnae +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +CCB7E89F-BE54-479F-9B36-34C80710DC2F + + + + + +Figs 15–16 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +Extensively black small species ( +2.5 mm +long) of the +pallidiventris-cursitans +group, with one pair of long vertical bristles. Antennae black with postpedicel conical, elongate, about 3 × as long as wide at base. Thorax with mesoscutum greyish dusted including postpronotal lobe and pleura greyish dusted, leaving only a large polished spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow with all coxae and trochanters extensively black, mid femur with a black stripe dorsally, hind femur blackish at tip and all tarsi black annulated. Mid tibia with a long, sharp apical spur. Hind femur with a ventral row of black spinules. Wings hyaline with veins R + +4+5 +and M +1+2 +convergent just before meeting wing margin. + + + + +Etymology + + +This species is dedicated to the mother (Fatna Abdaoui) of the first author for her invaluable support. + + + + +Type material + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +High Atlas + +• +♂ +; Ourika; + +9 Apr. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB +. + + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.5 mm +; wing: +2.3 mm +. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput greyish pollinose, with one pair of long black verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose, with long black setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose. Frons greyish pollinose, narrower than pedicel, somewhat broader toward ocellar tubercle, yellowish dusted. Face slightly narrower than pedicel, subshining. Clypeus long, subshining. Antennae black, pedicel as long as deep, postpedicel conical, elongate, about 3× as long as wide at base (stylus partly broken). Proboscis black, shorter than head is high. Palpus black, nearly ovate, with long black subapical seta. + + +Fig. 15. + +Platypalpus fatnae +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, LESCB). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci and detail of tip of left cercus in lateral view. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + +THORAX. Extensively black. Mesoscutum greyish dusted including postpronotal lobe. Pleura greyish dusted leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Thoracic hairs broken, but according to hair follicles: postpronotal lobe with one seta and several setulae, mesoscutum with 1 notopleural, 2 scutellars, acrostichals biserial and dorsocentrals uniserial. +LEGS. Yellow except for all coxae and trochanters extensively black, mid femur with a black stripe dorsally, hind femur blackish at tip, all tarsi black annulated. Coxae and trochanters with long black setae. Fore femur thickened in basal quarter, with rows of pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia slightly thickened, spindle-shaped, clothed with ordinary setulae and bearing 2–3 strong black setae dorsally at median part. Mid femur very distinctly thickened, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of thick, long black posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, as long as femur, with a row of black ventral spinules and a long, sharp, largely black apical spur. Hind femur slender with a ventral row of black spinules. Hind tibia slender, clothed with ordinary setulae, dorsally bearing 1 strong black preapical seta and 1–2 strong black ventral setae in the middle. + +WINGS. Hyaline, with pale brownish veins. Costa with 1 moderately long black seta. Veins R 4+5 and M 1+2 convergent just before meeting wing margin. Crossveins m-cu and r-m separated, bm distinctly broader and longer than br. Vein Cu +2 +straight. Vein Cu reaching wing border, recurrent in apical part. Anal vein indistinct. Squama whitish with pale hairs. Haltere whitish. + + + +Fig. 16. + +Platypalpus fatnae +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, ♂, habitus (holotype, LESCB). + + + +ABDOMEN. With tergites extensively blackish, subshining, covered with long pale setae; sternites blackish, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 15 +) with cerci much longer than epandrium. Both cerci pointed, right cercus much longer than left cercus. Apices of both cerci forked. Right surstylus lacking ( +Fig. 15A +). Apical border of left epandrial lamella deeply notched, set with long fine setae. Setae on left margin shorter ( +Fig. 15C +). + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The species described here can be compared with + +Platypalpus baezi +Grootaert & Chvála, 1992 + +, described from the Canary Islands (couplet 100), and with + +P. alluaudi +Grootaert & Chvála, 1992 + +, described from +Morocco +(couplet 95); the three species have one pair of black verticals, black antennae with the postpedicel at least 2.5 × as long as deep, legs yellow with all coxae and trochanters black and the tarsi black annulated, but the new species has a black stripe on the mid femur dorsally, which is absent in + +P. alluaudi + +and + +P. baezi + +. The new species has some black dorsal setae on the fore tibia (2–3), as in + +P. alluaudi + +(absent in + +P. baezi + +). The mid tibia in the new species have a row of black ventral spinules and the hind tibia bear 3–4 strong black setae posterodorsally, which are absent in + +P. alluaudi + +and + +P. baezi + +. The acrostichals and dorscentrals cannot be compared because they are broken in the new species. An illustration of the male genitalia of + +P. alluaudi + +is not available. The genitalia of + +P. baezi + +and those of new species are completely different (compare +Grootaert & Chvála 1992 +: figs 110–112 with +Fig. 15 +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA9F21F83AD6AB3DD52FC73.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA9F21F83AD6AB3DD52FC73.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..46bbb1fe551 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFA9F21F83AD6AB3DD52FC73.xml @@ -0,0 +1,583 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus ebejeri +Grootaert & Zouhair + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +67968D6A-216A-4A47-BCF2-778C5D84B3E0 + + + + + +Figs 13–14 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A medium sized species ( +2.8–3mm +long) of the +pallidiventris-cursitans +group, with one pair of long black verticals. Antennae black with postpedicel conical, elongate, about 3.5× as long as wide at base, stylus slightly longer than postpedicel. Thorax with mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe greyish dusted (microtrichia long), pleura greyish dusted, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Legs mostly blackish brown, with hind knees and hind and mid femora yellowish apically, tibia yellowish, tarsi brown with metatarsus yellow brown apically, but in dark specimens also yellowish part brown to blackish brown. Mid tibia with a sharp, pointed, black spur, as long as tibia is wide. Wings faintly brown infuscate with veins M +1+2 +and R +4+5 +convergent before reaching wing border. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This species is named in honour of Dr Martin Ebejer in recognition for his substantial contributions to the exploration of Moroccan +Diptera +. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Oued Khemis; + +28 Dec. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratypes + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Barrage Smir +; + +6 Apr. 2013 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +4 ♂♂ +, +3 ♀♀ +; +Jbel Zemzem +; + +17 Apr. 2014 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Zaouyet El Habtiyen +; + +15 Apr. 2015 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +5 ♂♂ +; +Ras Mazari +; + +8 Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Rahbat Amlay +; + +2 May 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Bni Bounsar +; + +13–31 May 2018 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +, +2 ♀♀ +; +Cascade Chrafate +; + +22 Mar. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +5 ♂♂ +, +5 ♀♀ +; same collection data as for preceding; +LESCB + +• + +5 ♂♂ +; +Ain Jdioui +; + +20 Apr. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +4 ♂♂ +; +Oued +khemis; + +28 Dec. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Oued Tanina +; + +22 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Douar Adder +( +Tasselt +); + +22 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +; +Rmel +; + +17 May 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +F.Z. Sliman +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +, +1 ♀ +; +Ametrasse +; + +20 May 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Mallaliyen +; + +4 Mar. 2023 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Eastern Morocco + +• +1 ♂ +, +2 ♀♀ +; +Oujda +( +Urban +); + +18 Mar. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +Atlantic Plain + +• +28 ♂♂ +, +8 ♀♀ +; +Douar Louamra +; + +6 Mar. 2015 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Forest of Maâmora +; + +24 Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. – + + +High Atlas + +• +28 ♂♂ +, +8 ♀♀ +; +Anfgou +; + +2 Aug. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + +LENGTH. Body: 3.0 mm; wing: 3.0 mm. +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput greyish pollinose, with short pale setae, one pair of long black verticals. Gena greyish pollinose with long yellow setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose with 2 long black anterior setae and 2 very short yellow posterior setae. Frons subshining, as wide at base as pedicel. Face densely greyish dusted, narrower than pedicel. Clypeus polished and long. Antennae black, pedicel as long as deep, postpedicel almost rectangular, pointed, about 3.5 × as long as wide at base, stylus slightly longer than postpedicel. Proboscis blackish brown, shorter than head is high. Palpus brown, ovate, with scattered pale setulae and one long yellow subapical seta. +THORAX. Black. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe greyish dusted (microtrichia long), pleura greyish dusted, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 long black seta and 3 minute pale setae. Thoracic hairs black, but yellow in some specimens. Mesoscutum with 2 long, thick black notopleurals, 1 long blackish postalar, 2 pairs of blackish prescutellars (one strong, long pair and one short, faint pair), 4 blackish scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair very short), acrostichals biserial, dorsocentrals uniserial, as long as acrostichals. +LEGS. Mostly blackish brown, with hind knees and hind and mid femora yellowish at base, tibia yellowish, tarsi annulated but rather indistinctly, but in dark specimens yellowish part of legs also brown to blackish brown. CoXae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur moderately thickened, with pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae, and a ring of thick black setae at apex. Fore tibia slightly thickened, clothed with ordinary brownish setulae, with 2–3 thick, short brown setae near apex. Mid femur very thickened (about 2× as thick as fore femur), with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long yellow posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, with a row of ventral spinules and a sharp pointed, black apical spur, as long as tibia is wide. Hind femur slender, clothed with ordinary yellow setulae. Hind tibia slender, as long as femur, with ordinary short yellow setulae. + +WINGS. Faintly brown infuscate, with brown veins. Costa with one long brown seta. Vein M +1+2 +and vein R +4+5 +convergent before reaching wing border. Crossveins m-cu and r-m separated, bm distinctly longer than br. Vein Cu 2 straight, recurrent in basal part. Vein Cu reaching wing border. Anal vein distinct. Squama yellowish. Haltere whitish. + + +ABDOMEN. With blackish tergites, polished, covered with pale setae. Sternites blackish, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 13 +) with right surstylus long, fused with right epandrial lamella. At its base only short setae, the usual long setae absent. Both cerci set with a number of flattened setae, + + + +Fig. 13. + +Platypalpus ebejeri +Grootaert & Zouhair + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +especially on left margin of left cercus ( +Fig. 13B +). Left margin of left epandrial lamella densely set with long setae. + + +Female + +Resembling male, except for the terminalia. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +Platypalpus riojaensis +Chvála, 1981 + +(couplet 102). According to the original description of + +P. riojaensis + +in +Chvála (1981) +, the latter is very close to the species described here. + +Platypalpus riojaensis + +has one pair of verticals, the antennae are black with the postpedicel pointed, more than twice as long as deep at the base, the thoracic hairs are black, the acrostichals are biserial, the dorsocentrals are uniserial, exactly as in the new species, but in the latter the postpedicel is longer, about 3.5× as long as deep at the base. The wings in + +P. riojaensis + +are clear, while in the new species they are faintly brown infuscate. The legs have almost the same coloration in both species, with all coxae black, the femora more or less darkened, leaving at least the apical fourth yellowish, and the tarsi are annulated rather indistinctly, but in the new species the mid and hind femora are yellowish at the base, not apically. The fore femur is almost entirely blackish brown. The posteroventral setae on the mid femur are black in + +P. riojaensis + +, but yellow in the new species. Posteroventral and anteroventral setae are present on the hind femur in + +P. riojaensis + +, but are absent in the new species. The genitalia of both species are different (compare +Chvála 1981 +: fig. 19 with +Fig. 13 +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFACF21183B36F27DB10FED8.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFACF21183B36F27DB10FED8.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7566e344e1f --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFACF21183B36F27DB10FED8.xml @@ -0,0 +1,265 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus atlasensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +98D626B9-1227-4E23-A9CA-BF1AECB3F45F + + + + + +Figs 11–12 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A small blackish brown species ( +2.5 mm +long) of the +pallidiventris-cursitans +group with one pair of long vertical bristles. Antennae with basal segments yellow. Thorax with mesoscutum yellowish dusted including postpronotal lobe and pleura yellowish dusted, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow with four hind coxae and trochanters, knees of hind and mid legs blackish, tarsi uniformly dark brown eXcept first segment darkened torwards tip. Mid tibia with a very short flattened spur. Wings hyaline with veins R +4+5 +and M +1+2 +convergent just before meeting wing margin. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This new species is named after the Atlas Mountains, where the +holotype +was found. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +High Atlas + +• +♂ +; Oumnas; + +25 Mar. 2017 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB +. + + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.5 mm +; wing: 2.0 mm. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput greyish pollinose, covered with short pale setae, with one pair of long black verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose, with long pale setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose. Frons slightly narrower than pedicel, somewhat broader toward ocellar tubercle, yellowish dusted. Face narrower than pedicel, yellowish dusted. Clypeus short, subshining. Antenna with both basal segments yellow, postpedicel black, short, slightly longer than deep, arista black, about 2× as long as postpedicel. Proboscis blackish, strong, nearly as long as head is high. Palpus yellow, ovate, with scattered pale setulae and a long pale subapical seta. +THORAX. Blackish brown. Mesoscutum densely yellowish dusted including postpronotal lobe. Pleura densely yellowish dusted, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with one long black seta and several pale setulae. Mesoscutum with 1 long postalar and 4 scutellars (apical pair long); acrostichals biserial, dorsocentrals uniserial. +LEGS. Yellow, except posterior four coxae and trochanters brown, knees of mid and hind legs blackish and all tarsi uniformly brown, not annulated, except metatarsus darkened torwards tip. Coxae and trochanters with yellow setae. Fore femur moderately thickened with rows of anteroventral and posteroventral pale setae. Fore tibia very slightly thickened, clothed with ordinary setulae. Mid femur thicker than fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and a row of brown posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, as long as femur, covered with ordinary setulae, with very short, flattened apical spur. Hind femur slender, with short and pale anteroventral setae. Hind tibia slender, clothed with ordinary setulae. + +WINGS. Hyaline, with pale brownish veins. Costa with very short brown setae and a long brown seta at base. Veins R +4+5 +and M +1+2 +convergent just before meeting wing margin. Crossveins m-cu and r-m contiguous, bm slightly longer and broader than br. Vein Cu 2 straight. Vein Cu reaching wing border, recurrent in apical part. Anal vein indistinct. Squama blackish. Haltere whitish. + + + +Fig. 11. + +Platypalpus atlasensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, LESCB). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. +D +. Left cercus, lateral view. +E +. Left cercus, ventral view. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +ABDOMEN. With tergites blackish brown, subshining, covered with long pale setae; sternites blackish brown, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 11 +) with cerci longer than epandrial lamellae. Right cercus a little longer than left cercus and much more slender ( +Fig. 11B +). Tip of right cercus set with fine spinules. Left cercus ventrally (inside) eXcavated ( +Fig. 11D–E +), eXcavation bordered with broad denticulate spinules, central area set with fine spine only ( +Fig. 11E +). Right surstylus fused with right epandrial lamella, lacking usual setae at apex. Area at base of surstylus very wide ( +Fig. 11A–B +) and set with a comb of long setae. Left epandrial lamella ( +Fig. 11C +) with a broad apex, notched in middle, left border set with a few long setae, nearly as long as lamella is wide. + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +Platypalpus articulatus +Macquart, 1827 + +(couplet 160). According to the description in +Chvála (1975) +and the diagnosis in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +of + +P. articulatus + +, the latter is very close to the new species; they differ only in the tarsi: the legs in both species are yellow with the posterior four coxae brown and the posterior four knees blackish, but in + +P. articulatus + +all tarsi are brownish annulated, while in the new species all tarsi are uniformly brown, not annulated, except for the metatarsus being darkened near the tip. The genitalia of both species are clearly different: in the new species the cerci are much longer and larger than in + +P. articulatus + +, and they are not enclosed in the periandrium as in + +P. articulatus + +. The right cercus of the new species bears numerous spinules at the apex, and the left cercus bears spinules on the inside which are absent in + +P. articulatus + +, while the right surstylus is fused with the right epandrial lamella, unlike in + +P. articulatus + +(compare +Grootaert & Chvála 1992 +: figs 206–210 with +Fig. 11 +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFAEF21483A16A97DC37FC56.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFAEF21483A16A97DC37FC56.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a02f9aa983f --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFAEF21483A16A97DC37FC56.xml @@ -0,0 +1,277 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus rifensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +1D78112C-239D-4EA6-AD68-5D21E3CC8A49 + + + + + +Figs 9–10 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +Very small brown species ( +2 mm +long) of the + +longicornis + +group, with two pairs of verticals, very small postpedicel and yellow proboscis. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe subshining, pleura subshining, leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow with hind four coxae paler brown, fore tibia with ventral and dorsal brown stripes, first fore tarsal segment dark brown at base, last three tarsal segments of mid and hind legs brownish (darker in hind than mid legs). Mid tibia without apical spur. Wing hyaline with vein bm shorter than br and veins R +4+5 +and M +1+2 +parallel before meeting wing margin. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This species is named after the Rif region of the North of +Morocco +, where the +holotype +was collected. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Cascade Chrafate; + +22 Mar. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB +. + + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.3 mm +; wing: 2.0 mm. + + + +Fig. 9. + +Platypalpus rifensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, LESCB). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci and detail of apex of right cercus. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput densely greyish pollinose, with minute pale setae, two pairs of verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose, broader, with long pale setae. Ocellar tubercle shining. Frons dusted, slightly broader than pedicel, somewhat broader toward ocellar tubercle. Face densely yellowish dusted, narrower than pedicel. Clypeus yellowish dusted, longer. Antennae brown, with both basal segments brownish yellow, postpedicel very small, somewhat onion-shaped, as long as deep (stylus broken). Proboscis yellow, short, half as long as head is high. Palpus yellow, somewhat large, with scattered pale setulae and two moderately long yellow subapical setae. +THORAX. Brown. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe subshining, pleura subshining, leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 long yellow seta. Mesoscutum with 2 short yellow notopleurals, 1 long yellow postalar, 2 long yellow prescutellars, 4 scutellars, acrostichals quadriserial, dorsocentrals uniserial. +LEGS. Yellow, except for hind four coxae paler brown, fore tibia with ventral and dorsal brown stripes, first fore tarsal segment dark brown at base, last three tarsal segments of mid and hind legs brownish (darker in hind than in mid legs). CoXae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur moderately thickened, with pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia swollen in apical half, uniformly clothed with moderately long brown setulae. Mid femur thicker than fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long yellow posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, without apical spur. Hind femur slender, long, clothed with ordinary pale setulae. Hind tibia slender, covered with ordinary pale setulae. Fore metatarsus covered with long brown setae, the longest at base slightly longer than metatarsus is wide (about 1.3×). + +WINGS. Hyaline,with paler brownish veins. Costa with two long yellow setae. Veins R +4+5 +and M +1+2 +prallel before meeting wing margin. Crossveins m-cu and r-m slightly separated, bm slightly shorter than br. Vein Cu 2 straight. Vein Cu almost reaching wing border. Anal vein indistinct. Squama yellowish with long pale setae. Haltere whitish. + + +ABDOMEN. With tergites and sternites brown, shining, covered with long pale setulae. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 9 +) with cerci equally long, digitiform, and apex of right cercus somewhat pointed ( +Fig. 9B +). Left epandrial lamella rectangular; left margin with some longer setae, hardly half as long as left lamella is wide, in apical half only ( +Fig. 9C +). Right surstylus short ( +Fig. 9A +). + + + +Fig. 10. + +Platypalpus rifensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, ♂, habitus (holotype, LESCB). +A +. Lateral view. +B +. Head, thorax and fore legs, lateral view. Scale bars = 0.5 mm. + + + +Female + +Unknown. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert and Chvála (1992) +leads to + +Platypalpus cilitarsis +Frey, 1943 + +(couplet 216). The latter is very close to the species described above, sharing many characters according to the description of + +P. cilitarsis + +in +Chvála (1989) +: two pairs of verticals, basal segments dirty yellow (brownish yellow in the new species), postpedicel very small and somewhat onion-shaped, acrostichals quadriserial, spur on mid tibia absent, legs yellow with posterior four coXae brownish. However, these species differ especially in the fore tibia and tarsi: in + +P. cilitarsis + +, the fore tibia is slender (tubiform) and entirely yellow, while in the new species it is swollen in the apical half and darkened. The tarsi in + +P. cilitarsis + +are brownish just on apical segments, and all the metatarsi are pale yellow, while in the new species the tarsi of the fore legs are entirely yellow except for the metatarsus, which is dark brown at the base, but the last three tarsal segments of the mid and hind legs are brownish (darker in hind than mid legs). In the new species, the fore metarsus is covered with long brown setae, the longest at the base being slightly longer than the metatarsus is wide (about 1.3×), unlike + +P. cilitarsis + +which has a row of long pale setae, the longest seta at the base is 3× as long as the metatarsus is wide. The apical three tarsal segments are distinctly widened in + +P. cilitarsis + +, while in the new species they are not widened. Unfortunately, to our knowledge no illustrations of the male terminalia of + +P. cilitarsis + +are available. + + + +Platypalpus pallidiventris +-cursitans + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB1F21683826A66DC3BFE3E.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB1F21683826A66DC3BFE3E.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f08c18aee33 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB1F21683826A66DC3BFE3E.xml @@ -0,0 +1,355 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus moroccensis +Grootaert & Zouhair + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +CE3431C5-DD27-439C-8FD1-24C65FC05867 + + + + + +Figs 6–7 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A small black species ( +2.5 mm +long) of the + +longicornis + +group, with two pairs of long black verticals. Antennae black with postpedicel elongate, about 3.5–4× as long as broad at base, stylus slightly longer than postpedicel. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely greyish dusted, pleura greyish dusted, leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow, all coxae whitish yellow, but fore tibia somewhat darker, mid femur with apical half only dorsally brownish, mid tibia brown, hind femur brown in apical half, hind tibia slightly dark apically, and tarsomere brown apically with four apical tarsi of all legs almost entirely brown. Mid femur lacking posteroventral setae. Mid tibia with a brown, flattened apical spur. Wings faintly brown infuscate with R +4+5 +and M +1+2 +parallel throughout. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This new species is named + +moroccensis + +after the English name of the country where it was found. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Oued Tissegris; + +20 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratypes + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Bni Bounsar +; + +13–31 May 2018 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Azilane +; + +27 Apr. 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +, +3 ♀♀ +; +Rmel +; + +24 Feb. 2020 + +; +sweep net +; +F.Z. Sliman +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Medchar Lemtahene +; + +9 Apr. 2022 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + +Fig. 6. + +Platypalpus moroccensis +Grootaert & Zouhair + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Right epandrial lamella. +B +. Epandrium with cerci. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.5 mm +; wing: +2.8 mm +. + + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput densely greyish pollinose with short pale setae, two pairs of long black verticals. Gena densely greyish pollinose with long pale setae. Ocellar tubercle greyish pollinose, with 2 moderately long black anterior setae and 2 short yellow posterior setae. Frons grey dusted, wide, in front a little wider than pedicel. Face densely grey dusted, narrower than pedicel. Clypeus longer than upper part of face, polished. Antennae entirely black, with pedicel as long as deep, postpedicel elongate, about 3.5 × as long as wide at base, stylus slightly longer than postpedicel. Proboscis black, shorter than head is high (¾ × height of head). Palpus pale yellowish brown, small, ovate, with scattered pale setulae and one long yellow subapical seta ( +Fig. 7C +). + +THORAX. Black. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe densely greyish dusted, pleura greyish dusted, leaving a polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 short black seta. Mesoscutum with 1 notopleural, 1 long postalar, 4 black scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair short); acrostichals minute, yellow, biserial, dorsocentrals yellow, uniserial, as long as acrostichals. + +LEGS. Yellow including coxae and trochanters (even pale yellow), with fore tibia somewhat darker, mid femur with apical half only dorsally brownish, mid tibia brown, hind femur brown in apical half, hind tibia slightly dark apically, tarsomere brown apically, four apical tarsi of all legs almost entirely brown (except yellowish base) ( +Fig. 7C +), knee of fore femur has a small anterior black spot; knees of mid and hind femora with a small black anterior and posterior spot, apex of all trochanters with a small black spot. CoXae and trochanters with ordinary yellowish setae of different lengths. Fore femur thickened in basal two thirds, a row of pale brown anterior setae present, half as long as femur is wide. Fore tibia not swollen, anteroventrally over entire length densely set with short setae (shorter than width of tibia), no long dorsal setae present. Mid femur ( +Fig. 7A, C +) thickened, more than fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules (spinules in posterior row longer), without a row of posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, with a row of ventral spinules and a short brown, flattened apical spur. Hind femur slender, much longer than mid femur, ventrally with a row of short yellowish setae (less than half as long as femur is wide). Hind tibia slender, slightly dark apically, as long as femur. + + + +Fig. 7. + +Platypalpus moroccensis +Grootaert & Zouhair + +sp. nov. +, ♂, habitus (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Dorsal view. +B +. Mid leg, anterior view. +C +. Head and thorax, lateral view, mid leg in posterior view. Photos: Isabella Van de Velde. + + +WINGS. Faintly brown infuscate, with paler brownish veins. Costa with one moderately long brown seta. Veins R 4+5 and M 1+2 parallel. Crossveins m-cu and r-m separated, bm slightly longer than br. Vein Cu 2 straight. Vein Cu reaching wing border. Anal vein distinct in apical part and evanescent in basal part. Squama yellowish with yellow seate. Haltere whitish. + +ABDOMEN. With pale brown tergites, shining, covered with short pale setae. Sternites pale brown, shining, with similar setation of tergites. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 6 +) with left cercus much widened in basal third, right cercus digitiform ( +Fig. 6B +). Left epandrial lamella with a broad apical margin, slightly notched near middle with right side pointed. Apical margin and left margin with short setae only. + + +Female + +Resembling male, except for the terminalia. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +Platypalpus palmeni +Frey, 1943 + +(couplet 203), described from the Alps, probably from a male (at least as supposed by +Chvála 1989 +). The new species corresponds very much to the re-description of + +P. palmeni + +in +Chvála (1989) +, but the two species differ clearly by: the colour of the thoracic hairs which are yellow in + +P. palmeni + +, while they are black in the new species; the fore femur is rather stouter and the mid femur not stouter in + +P. palmeni + +( +Fig. 8B +), while in the new species the mid femur is stouter than the fore femur; and by the colour of the legs, which are yellow in + +P. palmeni + +( +Fig. 8 +), with only the hind femur being blackish on the apical third and the tips of the four posterior tibiae and all tarsi are uniformly dark brown, while in the new species the legs also yellow, but with the fore tibia darker (yellow in paler specimens), the mid femur with a brown dorsal patch on the apical half, the mid tibia are brown, the hind femur is brown on the apical half, the hind tibia are slightly dark apically (not the four posterior tibiae as in + +P. palmeni + +), the tarsomeres are brown apically and the four apical tarsi of all legs are entirely brown (except the yellowish base). + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB4F20983B76A24DBE9FE96.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB4F20983B76A24DBE9FE96.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a35f072d88d --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB4F20983B76A24DBE9FE96.xml @@ -0,0 +1,324 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus taninensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: + +883E5997-6B59-499A-A3B8-7777 +CAD +75F1F + + + + + + +Figs 4–5 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A small black species ( +2.5 mm +long) of the + +albiseta + +group, with one pair of long black verticals. Antennae blackish brown with white stylus, postpedicel elongate conical, about 4× as long as wide at base, stylus densely pubescent, as long as third antennal segment. Thorax with mesoscutum polished, including postpronotal lobe (except for dusted margins of mesoscutum), pleura subshining, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Legs blackish brown, except for fore coxa and trochanter whitish yellow, tip of fore femur and apical third of hind femora yellowish. Mid tibia without apical spur. Hind femur with long yellow anteroventral setae. Wings mainly brown infuscate with vein M +1+2 +conspicuously bowed before meeting wing margin and vein R +4+5 +rather straight. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This new species is named after Oued Tanina, which drains the mountain of Jbel Kelti at the western Rif of +Morocco +, where the +holotype +was collected. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Oued Tanina; + +22 Apr. 2021 + +; +sweep net +; +L. Zouhair +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♀ +; same collection data as for holotype; +LESCB + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: +2.5 mm +; wing: +2.8 mm +. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput greyish pollinose, covered with short brown setae, one pair of long black verticals. Gena greyish pollinose with long brown setae. Frons greyish dusted, narrower than pedicel, somewhat broader toward ocellar tubercle. Face greyish dusted, narrower than pedicel. Clypeus polished, long, about as long as face. Antennae blackish brown with white stylus (slightly brownish at extreme base), pedicel as long as deep, postpedicel very elongate conical, about 4–5× as long as wide at base, stylus densely pubescent, as long as postpedicel. Proboscis brown, shorter than head is high. Palpus brown, small with scattered pale hairs and long dark subapical setae. +THORAX. With mesoscutum black, pleura brown. Mesoscutum polished, including postpronotal lobe (except for dusted margins of mesoscutum), pleura subshining, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Postpronotal lobe with 1 long, faint yellow seta and 1 short yellow seta. Mesoscutum with 1 long notopleural, 1 moderately long postalar, 2 pairs of long yellow prescutellars, 4 brownish scutellars (apical pair long and cruciate, lateral pair very short), acrostichals yellow, biserial, widely separated, dorsocentrals yellow, uniserial, as long as acrostichals. +LEGS. Blackish brown with fore coxa and trochanter whitish yellow, tip of fore femur and apical third of hind femora yellowish. CoXae and trochanters with yellow setae of different lengths. Fore femur thickened in basal two thirds, with a row of long pale posteroventral setae. Fore tibia rather spindle-shaped, clothed with ordinary pale setulae. Mid femur slightly thicker than fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long, thick (spine-like), brown posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, without apical spur, covered with ordinary setulae. Hind femur slender, with long yellow anteroventral setae. Hind tibia slender, slightly shorter than femur, clothed with ordinary brown setulae. + +WINGS. Mainly brownish infuscate, with brownish veins. Costa with one moderately long brown seta. Vein M 1+2 conspicuously bowed before meeting wing margin, vein R 4+5 rather straight. Crossveins m-cu and r-m not separated, bm slightly longer and broader than br. Vein Cu +2 +rather sinuate, recurrent. Vein Cu reaching wing border, recurrent in basal part. Anal vein distinct in basal part and evanescent in apical part. Squama yellowish. Haltere whitish. + + +ABDOMEN. With brown tergites, polished, covered with short pale setae. Sternites paler brown, with similar setation. Male terminalia ( +Fig. 4 +) with left cercus very wide with a rectangular process ( +Fig. 4B–D +). Right cercus narrower, bearing a tiny point at tip ( +Fig. 4D +). Left epandrial lamella very narrow, lacking long setae on left border. Right border of right epandrial lamella also lacks usual long setae ( +Fig. 4A +). + + + +Fig. 4. + +Platypalpus taninensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Right epandrial lamella with detail of apex. +B +. Epandrium, dorsal view. +C +. Left epandrial lamella. +D +. Cerci, dorsal view. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +Female + +Resembling male, except for the terminalia. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +Platypalpus albocapillatus +Fallén, 1815 + +(couplet 46). Compared to the description of + +P. albocapillatus + +in +Chvála (1973) +, both species are very close; they share the majority of morphological characters, but they differ in some characters especially in the legs: in + +P. albocapillatus + +the legs are mostly blackish including the coxae, with the knees and fore tibia towards the base brown, or the legs are entirely brown in paler specimens, while in the new species the legs are blackish brown, but the fore coxa and trochanter are whitish yellow, with the tip of the fore femur and the apical third of the hind femora yellow. The posteroventral setae of the fore femur in + +P. albocapillatus + +are black, while in the new species they are pale. The genitalia of both species are completely different in all details (compare +Chvála 1973 +: fig. 8 or +Chvála 1975 +: figs 289–291 with +Fig. 4 +). + + +This species can also be compared with + +Platypalpus miroslavi + +sp. nov. +They both belong to the + +albiseta + +group. The two species are similar, but differ in several characters: the postpedicel is more elongate in + +P. taninensis + +sp. nov. +than in + +P. miroslavi + +, the legs in + +P. miroslavi + +are yellow, including the coxae, except for the fore and mid femora dorsally, the fore tibiae, the apical third of the hind femora and all the tarsi are brownish to blackish brown, while in + +P. taninensis + +the legs are blackish brown, with the fore coxa, the tip of the fore femur and the apical third of the hind femora yellowish. The male terminalia of both species differ clearly especially in the shape of cerci ( +Figs 2B +, +4B +). + + + +Fig. 5. + +Platypalpus taninensis +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, ♂, habitus (holotype, RBINS). + + + + +Platypalpus longicornis + +group + + + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB7F20D83BD69A7D9C8FC38.xml b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB7F20D83BD69A7D9C8FC38.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a7c34f9ffd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/31/4B/DF/314BDF25FFB7F20D83BD69A7D9C8FC38.xml @@ -0,0 +1,374 @@ + + + +Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records + + + +Author + +Zouhair, Laila +2A899878-DF13-4EEA-AD26-3A1F5008CEC4 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +laila.zouhair@etu.uae.ac.ma + + + +Author + +Grootaert, Patrick +B80BC556-9087-4D0D-9D69-7FA9BE5779C4 +Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O. D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier Street 29, B- 1000 Brussels, Belgium. +pgrootaert@yahoo.co.uk + + + +Author + +Kettani, Kawtar +BB9CBA37-7070-4D2B-9395-D09D2E7F89E6 +Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Conservation of Biodiversity (LESCB), URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. +kettani.ka@gmail.com + +text + + +European Journal of Taxonomy + + +2024 + +2024-09-03 + + +951 + + +1 + + +1 +53 + + + + +https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2645/12209 + +journal article +10.5852/ejt.2024.951.2645 +2118-9773 +B17B7AE4-76A6-499C-A5E9-62A14D898484 + + + + + + +Platypalpus miroslavi +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. + + + + +urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: +2C60BA71-7F68-4F63-B6C6-C866A28AEB0D + + + + + +Figs 2–3 + + + + + +Diagnosis + + + +A black to brown species (3.0 mm long) of the + +albiseta + +group with one pair of long vertical bristles. Antennae blackish brown with white stylus, postpedicel elongate conical, about 4× as long as wide at base and stylus longer than third segment (1.5–1.7 ×). Thorax with mesoscutum polished including postpronotal lobe (except for dusted margins of mesoscutum) and pleura subshining, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Legs yellow with hind four coxae brownish, fore tibia, all tarsi, fore and mid femora dorsally and apical third of hind femora brownish to blackish brown. Mid tibia without spur. Hind femur slender with a row of pale posteroventral setae. Wings brown infuscate, with vein M +1+2 +and vein R +4+5 +convergent just before meeting wing margin. + + + + + +Etymology + + + +This species is dedicated to Dr Miroslav Barták, an expert on +Hybotidae +, in recognition for his assistance in providing some important literature used in this paper and useful advice on the curation of hybotid specimens. + + + + + +Material examined + + + + +Holotype + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +♂ +; Etouirsa; + +12 May 2019 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS +. + + + + +Paratypes + + + + +MOROCCO +– + +Rif + +• +1 ♂ +; +Azilane +; + +4 Jul.–13 Aug. 2013 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +2 ♂♂ +, +2 ♀♀ +; +Adrou +; + +14–15 Jul. 2015 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +RBINS + +• + +5 ♂♂ +, +6 ♀♀ +; same collection data as for preceding; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Chellal Akchour +; + +25 Apr.–6 Jun. 2016 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Oued El Koub +; + +23 Apr. 2018 + +; +sweep net +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Chellal Akchour +; + +25 Apr.–6 Jun. 2016 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Amghart +; + +25 Jun.–20 Aug. 2019 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +• + +1 ♂ +; +Tarsif +; + +7 Apr.–6 May 2021 + +; +Malaise trap +; +K. Kettani +leg.; +LESCB + +. + + + + + +Description + + + +Male + + +LENGTH. Body: 3.0 mm; wing: +3.2 mm +. + +HEAD. Black in ground colour, occiput slightly greyish pollinose, covered with short brown setae, postocciput with long brown setae, one pair of long blackish verticals, a pair of long black anterior ocellars. Gena slightly pollinose, with long yellow setae. Frons yellowish dusted, narrower than pedicel, somewhat broadened toward ocellar tubercle. Face yellowish dusted, narrower than pedicel. Clypeus shining, longer than upper part of face. Antennae blackish brown with white stylus (slightly blackish at extreme base), pedicel as long as deep, postpedicel elongate conical, about 4× as long as wide at base, stylus densely pubescent and 1.5–1.7× as long as postpedicel. Proboscis brown, shorter than head is high. Palpus yellowish brown, narrowly ovate, rather small, with scattered pale hairs and long dark subapical seta. +THORAX. With mesoscutum blackish brown, pleura brownish. Mesoscutum including postpronotal lobe polished (except for dusted margins of mesoscutum), pleura subshining, leaving a large polished spot on katepisternum. Scutellum subshining. Thoracic hairs long and pale. Postpronotal lobe with two long yellow setae and one minute yellow seta. Mesoscutum with 1 long notopleural, 1 moderately long postalar, 2 faint yellow prescutellars, 4 scutellars (apical pair long, cruciate, lateral pair very short), acrostichals biserial, widely separated, dorsocentrals uniserial. +LEGS. Yellow, except for hind four coxae brownish, fore and mid femora dorsally, fore tibiae, apical third of hind femora and all tarsi brownish to blackish brown. Coxae and trochanters with long yellow setae. Fore femur slender with rows of long, thin, pale anteroventral and posteroventral setae. Fore tibia rather slender, spindle-shaped, clothed with ordinary setulae. Mid femur slightly thicker than fore femur, with double row of black ventral spinules and row of long, thick, brown posteroventral setae. Mid tibia slender, without apical spur, covered with ordinary brown setulae. Hind femur slender with a row of pale posteroventral setae. Hind tibia slender, slightly shorter than femur, clothed with ordinary brown setulae. + +WINGS. Mainly brownish infuscate, with brownish veins. Costal setae very short and pale. Vein M +1+2 +and vein R +4+5 +convergent just before meeting wing margin. Crossveins m-cu and r-m not separated, bm slightly longer and broader than br. Vein Cu 2 rather sinuate. Vein Cu reaching wing border, recurrent in basal part. Anal vein distinct in basal part and evanescent in apical part. Squama yellowish with pale setae. Haltere whitish. + + + +Fig. 2. + +Platypalpus miroslavi +Zouhair & Grootaert + +sp. nov. +, male terminalia (holotype, RBINS). +A +. Left epandrial lamella with border of right epandrial lamella, ventral view. +B +. Epandrium with cerci, dorsal view. +C +. Left cercus. +D +. Detail of tip of left and right epandrial lamellae. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. + + + +ABDOMEN. With brown tergites, polished, covered with short, pale setae. Sternites brown with similar setation. Terminalia ( +Fig. 2 +) with left cercus very large, with an apical point and a lateral spine-like projection ( +Fig. 2C +). Smaller basal projection is connection with right cercus. Right cercus very narrow, with a conical tip. + + +Female + +Resembling male, except for the terminalia. + + + + +Remarks + + + +The key in +Grootaert & Chvála (1992) +leads to + +Platypalpus albocapillatus +Fallén, 1815 + +, but in the latter the stylus is as long as the postpedicel ( +Chvála 1973 +), while in the new species, the stylus is 1.5–1.7 × as long as the postpedicel. The legs in + +P. albocapillatus + +are mostly blackish including coxae, with knees and fore tibia towards the base brownish, or legs entirely brown in paler specimens, unlike the new species where the legs are yellow with four hind coxae, fore and mid femora dorsally, fore tibiae, apical third of hind femora and tarsi brownish, or blackish brown in dark specimens. The posteroventral setae of the fore femur in + +P. albocapillatus + +are black, while in the new species they are pale. The genitalia of both species are very different in all details (compare +Chvála 1973 +: figs 7–8 or +Chvála 1975 +: figs 289–291 with +Fig. 2 +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file