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Nudopella leucoptera

Description

Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836)

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♀, Aïn Zarka Village (35°31'12.7"N 5°20'42.8"W), 23.XII.2018. Goat farm: RIF. 1♂, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019. Sheep husbandry: RIF. 2♂♂, Mansoura Village (34°50'02.9"N 4°57'49.7"W), 23. V.2021.

General distribution. Afrotropical – Ethiopia, Zaire; Australasian/Oceanic – Hawaii Is. (USA); Nearctic – Canada; Oriental – Sri Lanka; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Andorra, Azores (Portugal), Belgium, Canary Is. (Spain), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Roumania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland; South Atlantic: Saint Helena (Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco (New record for North Africa).

Biology. We collected it in cattle, sheep, and goat farms. Nudopella leucoptera is also found associated with bovine excrement, sheep, equine, and pigs (Carles-Tolrá, 2001).

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 765, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.751, http://zenodo.org/record/17025248

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RIF
Event date
2018-12-23 , 2019-04-28
Verbatim event date
2018-12-23 , 2019-04-28
Scientific name authorship
Haliday
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Nudopella
Species
leucoptera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836) sec. Bouzrarf, Qalmoun, Beuk, Akhrif & Belqat, 2025

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.
  • Carles-Tolra, M. (2001). Datos taxonomicos y ecologicos de 304 especies de dipteros acalipteros (Diptera, Acalyptrata). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 28, 89-103.