Scatopse notata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dvořák, L., Haenni, J. - P., Dvořáková, K., Kameneva, E. P., Mariychuk, R., Manko, P., Oboňa, J. & Korneyev, V. A., 2019, Some insects from beer traps in Westernmost Ukraine, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka (Oxford, England) 10 (2), pp. 1-6 : 3

Scatopse notata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material. Uzhhorod, Onokivtsi, [48.656111, 22.330639], 12.09.2019 – 2.10.2019, trap 1 (U1b): 1 ♂, 2 ♀.

Remarks. Nearly cosmopolitan species, widespread by man all over the world except for tropical regions ( Hänel & Haenni, 2007). The larvae are saprophagous and live in a wide variety of decaying organic matter (e. g. rotten plant or vegetables remains, fungi, and the faeces of birds and mammals). They can occur under natural or anthropogenic conditions, for example very frequently in compost heaps. Although widespread and very common in Europe, S. notata is formally recorded here for the first time from Ukraine. The first record from Ukraine.