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Poecilosomella angulata

Description

Poecilosomella angulata (Thomson, 1869)

Material examined. Equine: MIDDLE ATLAS. 1♀, Bejaad Village (32°46'18.6"N 6°21'18.7"W), 12.XII.2018.

Distribution in Morocco. RIF. Martil, Tétouan (Marshall et al., 2011).

General distribution. Afrotropical – Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Is., Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire; Australasian/ Oceanic – all published records doubtful; Nearctic – USA (FL, TX); Neotropical – Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent; Palaearctic – Canary Is. (Spain) (Roháček et al., 2001), Morocco (Marshall et al., 2011).

Biology. In this work, this species is found in equine droppings.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MIDDLE, ATLAS
Event date
2018-12-12
Verbatim event date
2018-12-12
Scientific name authorship
Thomson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Poecilosomella
Species
angulata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Poecilosomella angulata (Thomson, 1869) sec. Bouzrarf, Qalmoun, Beuk, Akhrif & Belqat, 2025

References

  • Marshall, S. A., Rohacek, J., Dong, H. & Buck, M. (2011) The state of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera: Acalyptratae): world catalog update covering the years 2000 - 2010, with new generic synonymy, new combinations, and new distributions. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 51 (1), 217-298.
  • 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.