Spelobia talparum (Richards, 1927)

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 : 770

Spelobia talparum (Richards, 1927)

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 . Goat farm: RIF. 1♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 .

General distribution. Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Russia ( SET), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine ( Roháček et al., 2001); Morocco (New record for North Africa).

Biology. In our field work, the species was found in cattle and goat farms. According to the literature data, females were frequently collected during migration searching for new burrows for oviposition, potato, wheat, oats, and rape fields, mountain birch forests, deciduous forests, wet meadows and marshes, heather, moss, ruderal land ( Floren, 1989).