Gattolliat Jean-Luc, Samraoui Boudjéma, Benhadji Nadhira, Kechemir Lina, Zrelli Sonia, El Yaagoubi Sara, El Moutaouakil Majida El Alami, Sartori Michel
Museum of Zoology, Palais de Rumine, Place Riponne 6, CH-1014 Lausanne, Switzerland Museum of Zoology Lausanne Switzerland.
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland.
Zookeys. 2023 Jan 13;1139:137-163. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1139.94586. eCollection 2023.
Among mayflies, Baetidae are often considered as easy to recognise at the family level, but difficult to identify at lower level. In several faunistic or ecological studies, the identification remains at the family level; Baetidae are generally considered as widespread and ubiquitous, therefore as poorly informative for ecological studies or bioassessments. Here, a straightforward identification key is offered to larvae of the ten genera of Baetidae reported from Maghreb based on easily observable and understandable characters. The diversity, ecology, and distribution of each taxonomic unit (genera or subgenera) are discussed and the main difficulties for deeper identification are pointed out. Future challenges and remaining taxonomic riddles for Maghrebian Baetidae are detailed.
在蜉蝣中，短丝蜉科通常被认为在科级水平上易于识别，但在较低分类水平上难以鉴定。在一些动物区系或生态研究中，鉴定通常仅停留在科级水平；短丝蜉科通常被认为分布广泛且无处不在，因此对于生态研究或生物评估来说信息价值不大。在此，基于易于观察和理解的特征，为从马格里布地区报道的短丝蜉科十个属的幼虫提供了一个简单的鉴定检索表。讨论了每个分类单元（属或亚属）的多样性、生态学和分布，并指出了进一步鉴定的主要困难。详细阐述了马格里布短丝蜉科未来面临的挑战和剩余的分类谜团。
