Psilopa obscuripes Loew, 1860

Castro, Catarina Prado E, Santos, Vasco & Ameixa, Olga M. C. C., 2022, Shore fly communities from Ria de Aveiro, with new records for Portugal (Diptera: Ephydridae), Fragmenta entomologica 54 (1), pp. 95-100 : 97

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.13133/2284-4880/715
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8172988
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8535E960-6C6E-FFE3-FCD2-E388ABCCFA2E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Psilopa obscuripes Loew, 1860
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Psilopa obscuripes Loew, 1860 View in CoL

Specimens examined: 07.IX.2020 and 10.IX.2020, 3 ♂. Reboxo (40°39’42.9”N 8°41’39.9”W) and Cambeia (40°44’08.0”N 8°37’40.7”W), saltmarsh area on Halimione portulacoides , Limonium vulgare .

Comments: Palaearctic ( Mathis & Zatwarnicki 1995). Larvae of the genera Psilopa are known to mine leaves of saltmarsh plants ( Foote 1995). First record for Portugal.