Pericoma (Pericoma) latina Sarà, 1954

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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scientific name	Pericoma (Pericoma) latina Sarà, 1954
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Material examined. Middle Atlas: 3♂♂, Grotte Bouslama, 19. V.2022, sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, UAE- FST; 2♂♂, Oued El Bared, 21. V .2022 , sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, NMPC.

General distribution. This West Mediterranean species (Vaillant, 1978) has been found in North Africa in Algeria (Vaillant, 1978) and Morocco in the High Atlas ( Vaillant, 1955) and the Rif mountains ( Afzan & Belqat, 2016).

Habitat. Pericoma latina was found for the first time in the Middle Atlas near the source of a large river (Oued El Bared), which issues from rocks, with a strong current as it approaches a wide riverbed. The second habitat differs from the others; three males were collected near stagnant water inside the Bouslama cave.