Hybos striatellus Villeneuve, 1913

Zouhair, Laila & Kettani, Kawtar, 2022, Moroccan Hybotinae (Diptera: Hybotidae): first record of the subfamily and rare genera with an emphasis on their distribution, Zootaxa 5196 (2), pp. 211-222 : 215

Hybos striatellus Villeneuve, 1913

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Material examined. Morocco. 1♂, Rif, Maison forestière, Jbel Talassemtane, NPTL (site 1), 1696 m, 7.vi.–7.x.2017, Malaise trap, leg. K. Kettani ( PCLZ) .

Distribution. Known only from Algeria. First record from Morocco.

Comments. This is the first record of H. striatellus outside of Algeria. The species was described for the first time by Villeneuve (1913) based on material sampled by M. Lesne from Algeria and was collected for a second time after eighty years by Patrick Grootaert in the same country in 1993 ( Shamshev et al. 2015). A re-description of this species and illustrations of genitalia were provided by Shamshev et al. (2015).

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FIGURE 3. Habitus male. A. Hybos culiciformis; B. Hybos striatellus. Scale: 500 µm