Telomerina flavipes (Meigen, 1830)

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 : 770-771

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.17031456
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C52-C264-B23F-64088AE57A90
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Telomerina flavipes (Meigen, 1830)
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Telomerina flavipes (Meigen, 1830) View in CoL

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 GoogleMaps . 1♀, Nahda Village ( 32°14'22.9"N 8°33'12.2"W), 21.I.2020 GoogleMaps .

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).