Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836)

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 : 765

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.17031416
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C4F-C27E-B23F-67178C997ED7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836)
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Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836) View in CoL

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♀, Aïn Zarka Village ( 35°31'12.7"N 5°20'42.8"W), 23.XII.2018 GoogleMaps . Goat farm : RIF. 1♂, Bab Taza Village ( 35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 GoogleMaps . Sheep husbandry : RIF. 2♂♂, Mansoura Village ( 34°50'02.9"N 4°57'49.7"W), 23. GoogleMaps V.2021.

General distribution. Afrotropical – Ethiopia, Zaire; Australasian/Oceanic – Hawaii Is. ( USA); Nearctic – Canada; Oriental – Sri Lanka; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Andorra, Azores ( Portugal), Belgium, Canary Is. ( Spain), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Roumania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland; South Atlantic: Saint Helena ( Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco ( New record for North Africa).

Biology. We collected it in cattle, sheep, and goat farms. Nudopella leucoptera is also found associated with bovine excrement, sheep, equine, and pigs ( Carles-Tolrá, 2001).