New faunistic records of the families Bolitophilidae and Keroplatidae (Diptera, Sciaroidea) from Morocco

Ouafaa Driauach; Peter J Chandler; Mohamed Amin El Mouden; Boutaïna Belqat

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1128.85536

New faunistic records of the families Bolitophilidae and Keroplatidae (Diptera, Sciaroidea) from Morocco

Zookeys. 2022 Nov 7:1128:47-52. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1128.85536. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Ouafaa Driauach¹, Peter J Chandler², Mohamed Amin El Mouden¹, Boutaïna Belqat¹

Affiliations

¹ LESCB URL/CNRST N°18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.
² Biotechnology, Environmental Technology and Valorization of Bio-Resources Team, FSTH, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.

Abstract

The family Bolitophilidae is recorded for the first time from Morocco with one species Bolitophila (Bolitophila) saundersii (Curtis, 1836). Ten new species are added to the Moroccan fauna of Keroplatidae, known until now by only two species, raising the number of species currently known in Morocco to 12.

Keywords: Biodiversity; fungus gnats; new records.

Ouafaa Driauach, Peter J. Chandler, Mohamed Amin El Mouden, Boutaïna Belqat.