Published July 22, 2025 | Version v1
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Spelobia talparum

Description

Spelobia talparum (Richards, 1927)

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019. Goat farm: RIF. 1♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019.

General distribution. Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Russia (SET), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine (Roháček et al., 2001); Morocco (New record for North Africa).

Biology. In our field work, the species was found in cattle and goat farms. According to the literature data, females were frequently collected during migration searching for new burrows for oviposition, potato, wheat, oats, and rape fields, mountain birch forests, deciduous forests, wet meadows and marshes, heather, moss, ruderal land (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 770, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.751, http://zenodo.org/record/17025248

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RIF
Event date
2019-04-28
Verbatim event date
2019-04-28
Scientific name authorship
Richards
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Spelobia
Species
talparum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spelobia talparum (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.
  • 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.