Themira minor (Haliday, 1833)

Patrick T. Rohner & Gerhard Bächli, 2016, Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984), Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 89, pp. 237-260 : 258

Themira minor (Haliday, 1833)

Material: Switzerland: AG:Aristau, 400 m, x.1975 (leg. Wunderlich). LU:Dierikon, 550 m, 2000 (leg. Duelli); Luzern 550 m, 24.vi.–5.viii.2006 (leg. Sattler); Ruswil, 800 m, 2001 (leg. Duelli). TI:Bolle di Magadino, 200 m, 19.vi.1995 (leg. Merz &Bächli).

Romania:Calimani, 1700 m, 25.v.83; Cimpulung, 600 m, 25.v.1976; 800 m, 3.viii.1975; Cornetu, 23.v.1984 (all leg. Ceianu).

Distribution:Holarctic ( Ozerov 2005).

Comments:Often associated with waterfowl droppings, but can also be found on cow dung (which it readily accepts as breeding substrate under laboratory conditions).