Published March 18, 2025
| Version v1
Taxonomic treatment
Open
Megaselia brevior
Authors/Creators
Description
Megaselia brevior (Schmitz, 1924) (Fig. 2D)
Material examined. 4♂♂, Rif, Al Hoceima, Beni Bounsar, 34°50'30.944"N 04°25'23.638"W, 1340 m, 1– 30.vi.2022, MT, leg.: K. Kettani; 2♂♂, Middle Atlas, Khénifra, Jbel Bouhayati, 32°55'19.2"N 05°38'37.0"W, 820 m, 6.v.2023, SN, leg.: H. Oubrahimi.
Distribution. Europe, Azores, Asia (Iran) (Langourov et al., 2014). Morocco (New record).
Habitat. This species was collected in a mixed forest dominated by fruit trees and some shrub species such as Juniperus communis and Pistacia lentiscus at Beni Bounsar in the Rif and in an agricultural field along the Oum er Rbia River in the Middle Atlas (Fig. 4F).
Notes
Published as part of Sliman, Fatima Zahra, Disney, Ronald Henry Lambert & Kettani, Kawtar, 2025, New records of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Morocco with notes on distribution and habitats, pp. 437-453 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (2) on page 440, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.2.437, http://zenodo.org/record/17025050
Files
Files
(1.1 kB)
| Name | Size | |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:28c7f54091d12ca4fc9672f1ca7ac18f
|
1.1 kB | Download |
System files
(9.5 kB)
| Name | Size | |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:4144d2b5539e2ac43409e5866cbf4bf5
|
9.5 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Schmitz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Phoridae
- Genus
- Megaselia
- Species
- brevior
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megaselia brevior (Schmitz, 1924) sec. Sliman, Disney & Kettani, 2025
References
- Langourov, M., Lazarov, S., Stoev, P., Gueorguiev, B., Deltshev, C., Petrov, B., Andreev, S., Simov, N., Bekchiev, R., Antonova, V., Ljubomirov, T., Dedov, I. & Georgiev, D. (2014) New and interesting records of the MSS and cave fauna of Vitosha Mt, Bulgaria. In: Zhalov, A., Ivanov, I. & Petrov, I. (eds) Proceedings of Balkan Speleological Conference. March 28 - 30, 2014. Caving Club " Helictite " - Soia, Sofia, pp. 66-76.