Published July 22, 2025 | Version v1
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Telomerina flavipes

Description

Telomerina flavipes (Meigen, 1830)

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♂, 1♀, Touima Village (35°07'35.8"N 2°56'08.3"W), 18.I.2018. Sheep husbandry: COASTAL MESETA. 1♀, Nahda Village (32°14'22.9"N 8°33'12.2"W), 21.I.2020.

General distribution. Afrotropical – South Africa; Australasian/ Oceanic – Australia (NSW), New Zealand; Nearctic – Canada, Greenland (subfossil), USA; Neotropical – Brazil, Chile, Juan Chile (Fernandez Is.), Mexico; Oriental – Taiwan; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Andorra, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is. (Spain), Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy (incl. Sicily, Pantelleria I.), Iran, Japan, Malta, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia (CET, NET, SET), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadjikistan, Tunisia, former Yugoslavia (Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco (New record).

Biology. Captured in cattle and sheep farms in this work. It is known to be cosmopolitan, common, chiefly necrophagous but also related to excrements: cow houses and grass compost, bird's nests (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 pages 770-771, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.751, http://zenodo.org/record/17025248

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RIF
Event date
2018-01-18 , 2020-01-21
Verbatim event date
2018-01-18 , 2020-01-21
Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Telomerina
Species
flavipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Telomerina flavipes (Meigen, 1830) 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.