Baeoura ebenina Stary , 1981

Driauach, Ouafaa & Belqat, Boutaina, 2015, A new species of the genus Baeoura from Morocco, with a key to the West Palaearctic species (Diptera, Tipuloidea, Limoniidae), ZooKeys 532, pp. 99-105 : 101

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Limoniidae

Baeoura ebenina Stary, 1981

Material examined.

Rif Mts, Chefchaouen Province, Mezine village: 1♂, 2♀♀, Tributary Oued Tazarine, 35°05.670'N / 5°21.991'W, 731 m, 11.vi.2013, middle course of the river; 1♂, 1♀, Daya near Aïn Afersiw, 35°06.069'N / 5°20.337'W, 716 m, 11.vi.2013, pond. O. Driauach and B. Belqat leg.

Distribution.

Baeoura ebenina was previously known only from Spain and Portugal ( Oosterbroek 2014). We provide the first record for Morocco and North Africa.

Ecology.

According to Starý (2014), this species is collected near rivers and brooks. In Morocco, we collected adults by sweeping the vegetation around lotic and lentic habitats. One habitat was in the middle of a temporary river with a substrate of stones, gravel, and sand. The wet section was reduced to a thin layer of water, due to the beginning of the dry season and to water being pumped out by countrymen; the current velocity was slow to medium. There was a proliferation of filamentous green algae. Riparian vegetation consisted primarily of Nerium oleander and herbaceous vegeta tion. A second habitat was a pond surrounded by conifer reforestation, with the edges overgrown by grasses and herbaceous vegetation.