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Elachisoma pilosum

Description

Elachisoma pilosum (Duda, 1924)

Material examined. Cattle farm: COASTAL MESETA. 1♀, Lmchawir Village (32°46'23.1"N 8°29'06.5"W), 17.I.2019. 1♀, Safi City (32°23'53.0"N 9°10'39.0"W), 7.XI.2018. 1♂, Birjdid Village (33°22'06.7"N 8°00'52.8"W), 21.I.2019. RIF. 4♂♂, 3♀♀, Aïn Zarka Village (35°31'12.7"N 5°20'42.8"W), 23.XII.2018. Sheep husbandry: COASTAL MESETA. 2♂♂, Nahda Village (32°14'22.9"N 8°33'12.2"W), 21.I.2020. RIF. 2♀♀, Mansoura Village (34°50'02.9"N 4°57'49.7"W), 23. V.2021.

General distribution. Oriental – Indonesia (Java), Malaysia; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Roumania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden (Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco (New record for North Africa).

Biology. This species was found in cattle and sheep farms. Often found together with E. aterrimum on cow houses, dunghill, potato and rape fields, deciduous forests, and hills (Floren, 1989).

Notes

Published as part of Bouzrarf, Khadija, Qalmoun, Abderrahmane, Beuk, Paul L. Th., Akhrif, Rachida & Belqat, Boutaïna, 2025, Contribution to the knowledge of Sphaeroceridae (Insecta: Diptera) associated with animal breeding farms in Morocco, pp. 751-782 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3) on page 763, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.751, http://zenodo.org/record/17025248

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References

  • Rohacek, J., Marshall, S. A., Norrbom, A. L., Buck, M., Quiros, D. I. & Smith, I. (2001) World catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera). Slezskeho Zemske Muzeum, Opava. 414 p.
  • Floren, F. (1989) Distribution, phenology and habitats of the lesser dung fly species (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) of Sweden and Norway, with notes from adjacent countries. The lesser dung flies of Sweden and Norway, 22, 65-68.