Lotophila atra (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 : 755

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.17031362
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C45-C274-B23F-668F8EB5730F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Lotophila atra (Meigen, 1830)
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Material examined. Cattle farm: COASTAL MESETA. 2♂♂, 1♀, Birjdid Village (33°22'06.7"N 8°00'52.8"W), 21.I.2019 GoogleMaps ; 1♂, Sidi Aabed Village (32°44'16.6"N 9°00'59.0"W), 18.I.2019 GoogleMaps . RIF. 15♂♂, Moulay Bouchta Village (34°29'34.4"N 5°07'30.0"W), 21.I.2019 GoogleMaps ; 1♂, Afrasso Village (35°51'37.4"N 5°23'16.0"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 . Sheep husbandry: COASTAL MESETA. 1♂, Nahda Village (32°14'22.9"N 8°33'12.2"W), 21.I.2020 GoogleMaps .

Distribution in Morocco. RIF. Tanger ( Marshall et al., 2011).

General distribution. Nearctic – Canada; Oriental – China (SIC), Pakistan; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Azores ( Portugal), Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is. ( Spain), China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France incl. ( Corsica), Faeroe Is. ( Denmark), Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece (incl. Crete), Hungary, Kazakhstan, Israel, Italy (incl. Sardinia), Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madeira ( Portugal), Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadjikistan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( Roháček et al., 2001).

Biology. In our work, we found it associated with horse, cattle, and sheep farms. The species is coprophagous as a larva, although it has only been successfully reared from cow dung. Adults occur on the excrement of various kinds (horse, donkey, sheep, pig, dog, man, red deer, roe deer, mouflon, rabbit, and cattle ( Roháček, 1989).