Pericoma (Pachypericoma) fallax Eaton, 1893

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 : 160

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.1.151
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15810496
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scientific name	Pericoma (Pachypericoma) fallax Eaton, 1893
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Pericoma (Pachypericoma) fallax Eaton, 1893 View in CoL ***

Material examined. Middle Atlas: 1♂, Grotte Izora, 19. V.2022; 1♂, Grotte Bouslama, 19. V .2022 , sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, LMEE PO.

General distribution. Pericoma fallax is a European, West-Siberian, and Caucasian species ( Ježek et al., 2017; Kroča & Ježek, 2019; Ježek et al., 2021; Ježek et al., 2023).

Habitat. This species ( Figs 24, 25, 26, 27) develops in mosses in shaded and unshaded habitats. Our data corroborate those in the literature; we found the species in mountainous habitats, heavily shaded and rich in mosses, with the only difference being that the captures were made at the entrances and a few meters from the entrances of caves (Bouslama ( Fig. 10) and Izora ( Fig. 13)) in the heart of the National Park of Tazekka, a protected area.