Opalimosina ( Opalimosina ) mirabilis (Collin, 1902)

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, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3), pp. 751-782 : 766

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.3.751

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7DB505A4-D223-4E3B-AB67-45ABEC6F5A87

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17031424

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C4E-C27F-B23F-61618CDA7F62

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Opalimosina ( Opalimosina ) mirabilis (Collin, 1902)
status

 

Opalimosina ( Opalimosina) mirabilis (Collin, 1902) View in CoL

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 11♂♂, 14♀♀, Aïn Zarka Village ( 35°31'12.7"N 5°20'42.8"W), 23.XII.2018 GoogleMaps .

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

General distribution. Australasian/Oceanic – Australia), New Zealand, Hawaii ( USA). Nearctic – Canada; Neotropical – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico (VRC); Oriental – Nepal, Pakistan; Palaearctic – Andorra, Austria, Azores ( Portugal), Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is. ( Spain), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Madeira ( Portugal), Malta, Mongolia, Poland, Roumania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia ( Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco ( Marshall et al., 2011).

Biology. It is found in cattle farms in this work, chiefly coprophagous. Floren (1989) found the species to be extremely common in cow stables ( Schiegg & Munari, 1999).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sphaeroceridae

Genus

Opalimosina

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