Orthomus maroccanus, Chaudoir, 1873

Serrano, J., 2021, The genus Orthomus Chaudoir, 1838 in the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (4), pp. 430-447 : 432

Group of Orthomus maroccanus

According to Wrase and Jeanne [2005] the group is made up by Orthomus maroccanus , O. starkei and O. tazekensis . These species have eyes almost flat, scarcely protruding from head, long tempora, and a short metepisterna as long as wide, no or slightly narrowed posteriorly. The female genitalia of O. maroccanus [ Ortuño, 1996] show a short spermathecal duct (Fig. 4) and a short and moderately dilated spermatheca toward apex; however, in O. tazekensis rifensis the spermatheca is notably dilated apicad (Fig. 9), as it is found in species of the akin group of O. hispanicus (Figs 15, 18). Median lobe of aedeagus is ventrally bent at various degrees and the apical shaft is triangular and almost equally narrowed at apex (Figs 3, 7, 10–11).