Mystacides azurea ( Linnaeus 1761 )

Bemmoussat-Dekkak, Soumya, Abdellaoui-Hassaine, Karima, Sartori, Michel & Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen, 2021, Contribution to knowledge of the Trichoptera of northwestern Algeria: New species records for the Algerian fauna and taxonomic remarks for the Maghreb fauna, Zootaxa 5068 (2), pp. 186-210 : 199

Mystacides azurea ( Linnaeus 1761)

Materials examined. Chouly wadi Yebder ( CH 1): 14 ♂ P and 48 ♀ P, 12.viii.2014 ; 24 ♂ P, 3.vii.2017. Adults reared in the laboratory: 4 ♂ collected 14.vii.2015 .

Distribution. This is an East and West Palearctic species ( Neu et al. 2018). It was collected in Algeria by Gauthier (1920) in the Oued Kerma at Saoula, and it has been recorded in Morocco by Berrahou et al. (2001), Dakki (1981), El Agbani (1984), and Hajji et al. (2013). In our study, this species was collected at 916 m a.s.l.