Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836)

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 : 765

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.17031416
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C4F-C27E-B23F-67178C997ED7
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836)
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Nudopella leucoptera (Haliday, 1836) 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 . Goat farm : RIF. 1♂, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 GoogleMaps . Sheep husbandry : RIF. 2♂♂, Mansoura Village (34°50'02.9"N 4°57'49.7"W), 23. GoogleMaps V.2021.

General distribution. Afrotropical – Ethiopia, Zaire; Australasian/Oceanic – Hawaii Is. ( USA); Nearctic – Canada; Oriental – Sri Lanka; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Andorra, Azores ( Portugal), Belgium, Canary Is. ( Spain), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Roumania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland; South Atlantic: Saint Helena ( Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco (New record for North Africa).

Biology. We collected it in cattle, sheep, and goat farms. Nudopella leucoptera is also found associated with bovine excrement, sheep, equine, and pigs ( Carles-Tolrá, 2001).