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Medetera ambigua Medeterinae
Description
75. Medetera ambigua (Zetterstedt, 1843) (Medeterinae) — new to Portugal
(Figs 4G, 8D)
Number of specimens recorded. 9.
Distribution. Europe, in the south only recorded from Italy. Portugal: one province in the north (Beira Litoral) and one in the south (Baixo Alentejo).
Ecology. Nearly all of the Portuguese specimens were collected on the trunk of Quercus suber along a small stream running through a Q. suber montado, and one specimen on a chestnut tree trunk in dry mixed forest. Its habitat preference in Europe is poorly known, but also there it has been collected regularly on tree trunks.
Rarity (%). 2.3 (rare).
Activity period. April–May.
Notes
Published as part of Pollet, Marc, Andrade, Rui, Gonçalves, Ana, Andrade, Pedro, Jacinto, Valter, Almeida, Jorge, Braekeleer, Anja De, Calster, Hans Van & Brosens, Dimitri, 2019, Dipterological surveys in Portugal unveil 200 species of long-legged flies, with over 170 new to the country (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4649 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4649.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3357623
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Medeterinae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Dolichopodidae
- Genus
- Medetera
- Species
- ambigua
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Medetera ambigua (Zetterstedt, 1843) sec. Pollet, Andrade, Gonçalves, Andrade, Jacinto, Almeida, Braekeleer, Calster & Brosens, 2019