Pericoma (Pericoma) modesta ( Tonnoir, 1922 )

Saidoun, Imane, El Mouden, Mohamed Amin, Boussaa, Samia & Belqat, Boutaïna, 2025, New records of genera and species of moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Morocco, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (1), pp. 151-169 : 162

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.1.151

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:36CE1DF6-3801-4A65-B784-5641542CD443

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15810498

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E84E71-F744-9431-FFF1-84FCFB13FDB4

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scientific name

Pericoma (Pericoma) modesta ( Tonnoir, 1922 )
status

 

Pericoma (Pericoma) modesta ( Tonnoir, 1922) View in CoL *

Material examined. Rif: 1♂, Jbel Labyad, 2.II.2022; 1♂, Ruisselet Guinnes, 11.V.2022, sweep net, coll. Saidoun, FST-UAE.

General distribution. Pericoma modesta has a wide Mediterranean distribution ( Kvifte et al., 2016). In North Africa, it has been recorded from Morocco ( Boumezzough & Vaillant, 1986) and Algeria ( Vaillant, 1955, 1978).

Habitat. We collected the species for the first time in the Rif Mountains near the rivulet Ruisselet Guinnes surrounded by Apium nodiflorum , Bellis sylvestris, Euphorbia characias, and Ranunculus macrophyllus and in matorral habitat surrounded by Cistus crispus , Mentha pulegium , and Pteridium aquilinum .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Pericoma

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