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Spelobia palmata

Description

Spelobia palmata (Richards, 1927)

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♂ 1♀, Aïn Zarka Village (35°31'12.7"N 5°20'42.8"W), 23.XII.2018.

General distribution. Palaearctic – Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faeroe Is. (Denmark), Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece (incl. Crete), Hungary, Italy, Norway, Roumania, Russia (NET, SET), Slovakia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia (Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco (New record).

Biology. Found only in cattle farms in this work. Chiefly necrophagous species, reported from wet biotopes in forests, meadows with bushes, runs, and nests of small mammals, decayed fungi, marl pits, rotting apples, sap runs, grass compost, and ungulate droppings. It is frequently captured by soil traps (Schiegg & Munari, 1999).

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 769, 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
Verbatim event date
2018-12-23
Scientific name authorship
Richards
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Spelobia
Species
palmata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spelobia palmata (Richards, 1927) 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.
  • Schiegg, K. & Munari, L. (1999) Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) collected in the Forest Reserve Sihlwald (Kt. Zurich). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique Suisse, 72, 65-73.