Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984)

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

Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984)

Material: Switzerland: GE:Cartigny, Moulin de Vert, 350 m, 9.viii.2000 (leg. Merz &Bächli); Bernex, Tuilières, 430 m, 12.viii.2000.

Distribution:Palaearctic ( Ozerov 2005).

Comments:There are very few and sporadic records of this species for Europe in general ( Pont &Meier 2002). It was not included in published Swiss checklists ( Haenni 1998, 1997; Merz et al. 2001; Ozerov 2006; Rohner 2015), and to the best of our knowledge represents anew record for Switzerland ( Fig. 1 ) .

Figures

Fig. 1. Female Sepsis sp. captured in Flumserberg SG, 26. viii. 2016. Photo with kind permission of Rassim Khelifa.

Fig. 2. Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984), male: — above: abdomen, ventral view; — below: habitus, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm. This species has herein been documented for Switzerland for the first time, increasing the number of native species to 29. Photo: with kind permission from Yuchen Ang (Sepsdnet; Ang et al. 2013).