Vaillantodes fraudulentus (Eaton, 1896)

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 : 162-163

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.1.151
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scientific name	Vaillantodes fraudulentus (Eaton, 1896)
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Vaillantodes fraudulentus (Eaton, 1896) View in CoL **

Material examined. Morocco, Rif : 2♂♂, Oued Aâyaden, 27.IV.2015, sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, NMPC ; 3♂♂, Auberge Belwazen, 28.IV.2022, sweep net, coll. Saidoun, NMPC .

General distribution. Vaillantodes fraudulentus is known from the Iberian Peninsula ( Cobo et al., 2002) and in North Africa, from Algeria ( Satchell, 1955) and Tunisia ( Wagner, 1987).

Habitat. We collected adults ( Figs 33–35) near Oued Aâyaden, a high river, on limestone and mossy rock, by sweeping vegetation, mostly Pistachia lentiscus , Cistus sp. , and Nerium oleander . The other habitat where we collected the species corresponds to that of Auberge Belwazen, described above.

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