Distribution of aquatic beetles from the east of Morocco (Coleoptera, Polyphaga)

Y. Mabrouki1, Montserrat Ferrer2

1 Univ. Mohamed Premier, B. P. 524, Oujda, Morocco; 2 Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, P. Picasso s/n, 08003, Barcelona

Corresponding author(s): Y. Mabrouki (y.mabrouki@ump.ac.ma), Montserrat Ferrer (montseferrerf@telefonica.net)

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Resource Citation

Mabrouki, Y., Taybi, A. F., Chavanon, G., Berrahou, A., Millán, A., 2018. Distribution of aquatic beetles from the east of Morocco (Coleoptera, Polyphaga). Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona. Dataset/Occurrence: https://doi.org/10.15470/saajc8 https://doi.org/10.15470/saajc8

Abstract

Water beetles make up a large part of aquatic invertebrates (Jäch and Balke, 2008), so they are ideal candidates to be used as indicators of biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems, given their great specific and functional diversity, the great variety of habitats they are able to colonize and the general good taxonomic and faunistic knowledge (Bilton et al., 2006; Sánchez-Fernández et al., 2006).

Keywords: Occurrence, Aquatic Coleoptera, Inventory, Northeastern of Morocco, Moulouya, Monitoring, New records

Project details

Project title: Distribution of aquatic beetles from the east of Morocco (Coleoptera, Polyphaga).
Personnel: Y. Mabrouki
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Morocco  is  currently  divided  into  12  regions,  including  the  Oriental  Region  (fig.  1),  which occupies  almost  all  the  eastern  side  of  the  country  and  covers  an  area  of  90,127  km2  (see  Taybi et al., 2017a for details). The Oriental Region includes the wilaya of Oujda (Oujda–Angad prefecture) and the provinces of Berkane, Driouch, Figuig, Guercif, Jerada, Nador and Taourirt. The watershed of the Moulouya (fig. 1), which includes nearly 43,412 km2 of eastern Morocco, covers  much  of  the  Oriental  Region.  With  a  length  of  600  km,  the  Moulouya  is  the  largest  Moroccan river flowing into the Mediterranean. The main tributaries are the Oued Ansegmir, Oued Melloulou, Oued Za and Oued Msoun, all permanent. Other tributaries are intermittent (3–5 flashfloods on average per year)
Design description: In field surveys conducted from 2014 to 2017, more than 100 localities were collected along the basin of Moulouya River and Oriental Region of Morocco (see appendix for the complete list  of  localities).  Most  of  these  sampling  sites  were  visited  at  least  three  times.  Our  goal  was  to  document  maximum  macroinvertebrate  biodiversity  in  the  different  microhabitats  prospected at each sampling site.The samples of benthic fauna were collected using a kick net, landing nets and clamps. The macroinvertebrates, including water beetles, were identified to species level, placed in accordingly labeled tubes with alcohol at 70% or 96%, and deposited in the collections of aquatic macroinvertebrates at the Laboratory of Water Sciences, Environment and Sustai-nable  Development  of  the  University  Mohammed  Premier  from  Oujda  (Morocco),  and  the  Department of Ecology and Hydrology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia (Spain).

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=aquatic_beetles_morocco

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Aquatic beetles from the east of Morocco
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dryopidae, Elmidae, Elophoridae, Hydraenide, Hydrophilidae, Scirtidae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Morocco  is  currently  divided  into  12  regions,  including  the  Oriental  Region,  which occupies  almost  all  the  eastern  side  of  the  country  and  covers  an  area  of  90,127  km2. The Oriental Region includes the wilaya of Oujda (Oujda–Angad prefecture) and the provinces of Berkane, Driouch, Figuig, Guercif, Jerada, Nador and Taourirt. The watershed of the Moulouya, which includes nearly 43,412 km2 of eastern Morocco, covers  much  of  the  Oriental  Region.  With  a  length  of  600  km,  the  Moulouya  is  the  largest  Moroccan river flowing into the Mediterranean. The main tributaries are the Oued Ansegmir, Oued Melloulou, Oued Za and Oued Msoun, all permanent. Other tributaries are intermittent
Coordinates: 32°1'37.2''N and 35°44'49.2''N Latitude; 5°53'20.4''W and 0°10'33.6''E Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: The samples of benthic fauna were collected using a kick net, landing nets and clamps. The macroinvertebrates, including water beetles, were identified to species level, placed in accordingly labeled tubes with alcohol at 70% or 96%, and deposited in the collections of aquatic macroinvertebrates at the Laboratory of Water Sciences, Environment and Sustainable Development of the University Mohammed Premier from Oujda (Morocco), and the Department of Ecology and Hydrology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia (Spain).
Study extent description: Morocco is currently divided into 12 regions, including the Oriental Region, which occupies almost all the eastern side of the country and covers an area of 90,127 km2 (see Taybi et al., 2017b for details). The Oriental Region includes the wilaya of Oujda (Oujda-Angad prefecture) and the provinces of Berkane, Driouch, Figuig, Guercif, Jerada, Nador and Taourirt. The watershed of the Moulouya, which includes nearly 43,412 km2 of eastern Morocco, covers much of the Oriental Region. With a length of 600 km, the Moulouya is the largest Moroccan river flowing into the Mediterranean. The main tributaries are the Oued Ansegmir, Oued Melloulou, Oued Za and Oued Msoun, all permanent. Other tributaries are intermittent (3–5 flashfloods on average per year) (Bensaad et al., 2017, Mabrouki et al., 2017a).
Sampling description: In field surveys conducted from 2014 to 2017, more than 100 localities were collected along the basin of Moulouya River and Oriental Region of Morocco (see appendix for the complete list of localities). Most of these sampling sites were visited at least three times. Our goal was to document maximum macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the different microhabitats prospected at each sampling site.
Quality control description: The chorological categories proposed for the 91 species of Oriental Morocco and the Moulouya  watershed were ranked according to La Greca (1964, 1975) and Vigna Taglianti et al. (1992) for the western Palearctic fauna.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Distribution of aquatic beetles from the east of Morocco (Coleoptera, Polyphaga)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.es/archive.do?r=aquatic_beetles_morocco
Publication date of data: 2021-01-27
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-09-19
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Mabrouki, Y., Taybi, A. F., Chavanon, G., Berrahou, A., Millán, A., 2018. Distribution of aquatic beetles from the east of Morocco (Coleoptera, Polyphaga). Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, 16: 185-211, Doi: https://doi.org/10.32800/amz.2018.16.0185 https://doi.org/10.32800/amz.2018.16.0185