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

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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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Meroplius minutus (Wiedemann, 1830) View in CoL

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sepsidae

Genus

Meroplius

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