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Meroplius minutus Wiedemann 1830
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Meroplius minutus (Wiedemann, 1830)
Material: Switzerland: TI:Origlio, 420 m, 9.ix.1988.
Distribution:Holarctic, Oriental (Ozerov 2005).
Comments: The specimens were collected around a manure pile. According to several authors, M. minutus is especially attracted to human faeces (Melander &Spuler 1917; Pont &Meier 2002). It has thus been argued that the observed population decline of this species may be linked to improved hygienic conditions in Central Europe (van der Goot 1987).
Notes
Published as part of Patrick T. Rohner & Gerhard Bächli, 2016, Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984), pp. 237-260 in Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 89 on page 240, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.192634
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.192634 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Sepsidae
- Genus
- Meroplius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wiedemann
- Species
- minutus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Meroplius minutus Wiedemann, 1830 sec. Rohner & Bächli, 2016
References
- Ozerov, A. L. 2005. World catalogue of the family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera). - Zoologicheskie issledovania (Zoological Studies) 8: 1 - 74.
- Melander, A. L. & Spuler, A. 1917. The dipterous families Sepsidae and Piophilidae. - Bulletin of the Agricultural Experimental Station Washington 143: 1 - 103.
- Pont, A. C. & Meier, R. 2002. The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 37: 1 - 221.
- van der Goot, V. S. 1987. Meroplius minutus (Wiedemann) (Dipt., Sepsidae) extinct in the Low Countries. - Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 123: 82.