Norrbomia costalis (Zetterstedt, 1847)

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 : 756

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.17031364
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C44-C275-B23F-63F08BF679CD
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Norrbomia costalis (Zetterstedt, 1847)
status

Treatment

Norrbomia costalis (Zetterstedt, 1847) 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 . Sheep husbandry: COASTAL MESETA. 1♂, Aït Messaoud Village (31°43'36.0"N 8°05'14.3"W), 26.IV.2019 GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀, Nahda Village (32°14'22.9"N 8°33'12.2"W), 21.I.2020 GoogleMaps ; RIF. 1♂, Dghalyen Village (35°51'03.5"N 5°23'16.6"W), 1. GoogleMaps V.2019. Equine : RIF. 1♂, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀, Mansoura Village (34°50'02.9"N 4°57'49.7"W), 15. GoogleMaps V.2021. Goat : RIF. 1♀, Al Kachla Village (35°50'40.6"N 5°23'12.6"W), 4. GoogleMaps V.2019.

General distribution. Palaearctic – Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia ( Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco (New record).

Biology. We found this species in horse, cattle, sheep, and goat farms. It is generally rare but can be locally common, particularly on pastures near large horse farms ( Roháček, 1998).