Hydraena (Holcohydraena) exarata Kiesenwetter, 1866

Benamar, Loubna, Bennas, Nard, Hassoun, Mustapha & Millán, Andrés, 2022, Checklist of Moroccan aquatic beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae Mulsant, 1844) New records and updates, Zootaxa 5129 (4), pp. 451-504 : 455

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A6CBF61-76FB-4E5E-8038-F9860EA8F997

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6503968

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B2124F-FFB7-FF98-A3A9-FF37FAE665D4

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scientific name

Hydraena (Holcohydraena) exarata Kiesenwetter, 1866
status

 

Hydraena (Holcohydraena) exarata Kiesenwetter, 1866 View in CoL

First record from Africa.

Material examined. Rif and Pré-Rif (first record): Taza. 1 m, S359, 15.VII.1997.

Chorotype. Endemic Ibero-Maghrebian.

Moroccan distribution. Middle Atlas: Azilal ( Kocher 1958) . High Atlas: Marrakech ( Kocher 1958) .

Hydraena (Holcohydraena) rugosa Mulsant, 1844

Material examined. Central Plateau: Kénitra. 1 m., S327, 12.IV.2007.

Chorotype. W-Mediterranean.

Moroccan distribution.

Remark. This species was firstly reported from Morocco by Valladares et al. (2018), but without specifying the locality. The species seems typical of temporary waters and only found during winter or early spring ( Valladares et al. 2018). In Morocco it has been found during the middle of spring in slow banks downstream of a dam.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydraenidae

SubFamily

Hydraeninae

Tribe

Hydraenini

Genus

Hydraena

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