Spelobia palmata (Richards, 1927)

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 : 769

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.3.751
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17031448
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scientific name	Spelobia palmata (Richards, 1927)
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Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♂ 1♀, Aïn Zarka Village ( 35°31'12.7"N 5°20'42.8"W), 23.XII.2018 GoogleMaps .

General distribution. Palaearctic – Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faeroe Is. ( Denmark), Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece (incl. Crete), Hungary, Italy, Norway, Roumania, Russia ( NET, SET), Slovakia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia ( Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco ( New record).

Biology. Found only in cattle farms in this work. Chiefly necrophagous species, reported from wet biotopes in forests, meadows with bushes, runs, and nests of small mammals, decayed fungi, marl pits, rotting apples, sap runs, grass compost, and ungulate droppings. It is frequently captured by soil traps ( Schiegg & Munari, 1999).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Sphaeroceridae
Genus	Spelobia

Spelobia palmata (Richards, 1927)

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