Pericoma (Pericoma) diversa Tonnoir, 1920

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
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:36CE1DF6-3801-4A65-B784-5641542CD443
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15810494
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E84E71-F746-9433-FFF1-8771FB80FB33
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pericoma (Pericoma) diversa Tonnoir, 1920
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Pericoma (Pericoma) diversa Tonnoir, 1920 View in CoL *

Material examined. Middle Atlas: 1♂, Oued Bab Lehri, 21. V .2022 , sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, NMPC; 1♂, Grotte Bouslama, 19. V .2022 , sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, LMEE PO; 2♂♂, Oued El Bared, 21. V .2022 , sweep net, coll. Group Belqat, NMPC.

General distribution. This rare European species ( Oboňa & Ježek, 2014) is found in North Africa in Morocco’s High Atlas (Vaillant, 1978:229) and Rif mountains ( Afzan & Belqat, 2016).

Habitat. This species in the Middle Atlas is associated with different habitats, such as cropland, especially of cereals, with sporadic trees and vegetation, far from a temporary watercourse that was almost dry (Oued Bab Lehri), and the stagnant water of the cave Bouslama.