Pericoma (Pachypericoma) blandula 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.15810490
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scientific name	Pericoma (Pachypericoma) blandula Eaton, 1893
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Pericoma (Pachypericoma) blandula Eaton, 1893 View in CoL *

Material examined. Middle Atlas: 1♂, Ras Lma, 19. V .2022, sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, NMPC .

General distribution. This species is widespread over Europe ( Oboňa & Ježek, 2014; Morelli & Bruno Biscaccianti, 2021). In North Africa, it has been recorded from Morocco in the High Atlas ( Boumezzough & Vaillant, 1986; Ježek, 2004b) and the Rif ( Ježek, 2004b; Afzan & Belqat, 2016), in Algeria (Vaillant, 1979) and in Tunisia ( Wagner, 1987; Ježek, 2004b).

Habitat. We captured P. blandula in the Middle Atlas near the river Ras Lma, mainly on the right side of the bridge that crosses the watercourse, in a damp corner where the waterfalls gather before continuing under the bridge shaded by trees (e.g., several species of Rosaceae ); the site is difficult to access ( Fig. 12).