Meroplius minutus (Wiedemann, 1830)

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 : 240

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.192634
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6073829
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scientific name	Meroplius minutus (Wiedemann, 1830)
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Material: Switzerland: TI:Origlio, 420 m, 9.ix.1988.

Distribution:Holarctic, Oriental ( Ozerov 2005).

Comments: The specimens were collected around a manure pile. According to several authors, M. minutus is especially attracted to human faeces ( Melander &Spuler 1917; Pont &Meier 2002). It has thus been argued that the observed population decline of this species may be linked to improved hygienic conditions in Central Europe (van der Goot 1987).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Sepsidae
Genus	Meroplius

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