Sphaerocera curvipes Latreille, 1805

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 : 773-774

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.17031480
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87ED-1C57-C267-B23F-64088CC7798A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Sphaerocera curvipes Latreille, 1805
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Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♂, Mansoura Village (34°50'02.9"N 4°57'49.7"W), 29. GoogleMaps V.2021. 3♀♀, Aïn Zarka Village (35°31'12.7"N 5°20'42.8"W), 23.XII.2018 GoogleMaps . 8♂♂, 4♀♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 GoogleMaps . 1♀, Gouarat Village (35°40'38.6"N 5°52'21.6"W), 3. GoogleMaps VI.2019. 10 ♂♂. 6♀♀, Ben Karrich Village (34°49'55.2"N 4°58'30.0"W), 27.IV.2019 GoogleMaps . Equine : RIF. 1♂, Ben Karrich Village (34°49'55.2"N 4°58'30.0"W), 19.IV.2019 GoogleMaps . Goat farm : RIF. 2♀♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 GoogleMaps . 2♂♂, Al Kachla Village (35°50'40.6"N 5°23'12.6"W), 4. GoogleMaps V.2019. Sheep husbandry : RIF. 6♂♂, 1♀, Afrasso Village (35°51'37.4"N 5°23'16.0"W), 3. GoogleMaps V.2019.

Distribution in Morocco. RIF. Afrasso, Aîn Zarka, Al Kachla, Bab Taza, Ben Karrich, Gouarat, Mansoura.

General distribution. Afrotropical – Ethiopia; Australasian/ Oceanic – Australia (ACT, NSW), New Zealand; Nearctic – Canada; Neotropical – South America; Oriental – India, Pakistan; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Azores ( Portugal), Belgium, Bulgaria, China (TIB), Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Faeroe Is. ( Denmark), Finland, France (incl. Corsica), Germany, Great Britain, Greece (incl. Crete), Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madeira ( Portugal), Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Sweden, Switzerland, Tadjikistan, Tunisia, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia ( Roháček et al., 2001).

Biology. We found this species associated with cattle, sheep, equine, and goats. According to Floren (1989), it has a wide ecological tolerance, larvae are chiefly coprophagous, cow houses, cow dung, pastures, potato fields, maple sap, grass compost, and on nettles.