Norrbomia sordida (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.17031372
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C44-C275-B23F-65018EF07301
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Norrbomia sordida (Zetterstedt, 1847)
status

Treatment

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♀, Nahda Village (32°14'22.9"N 8°33'12.2"W), 21.I.2020 GoogleMaps . RIF. 1♂, Boujarah Village (35°34'38.7"N 5°19'02.5"W), 3. GoogleMaps V.2019. Equine : RIF. 1♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 GoogleMaps . Goat farm : RIF. 1♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 GoogleMaps .

Distribution in Morocco. RIF. Oued Guallet; Atlantic Plain. Larache, Loukkos ( Gatt et al., 2016).

General distribution. Australasian/Oceanic – Hawaii ( USA); Nearctic – Canada; Neotropical – Bermuda, Guatemala, Mexico; Oriental – India (Punjab); Palaearctic – Austria, Azores, Belgium, Canary Is. ( Spain), China (XIN), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Sweden, Switzerland, Tadjikistan, Türkiye ( Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco ( Kettani et al., 2022).

Biology. We found this species in cattle, sheep, equine, and goat farms in Morocco. It is a purely coprophagous species normally associated with horse dung, more rarely with cattle droppings on pastures ( Papp, 1993).