Hercostomus plagiatus (Loew, 1857) (Dolichopodinae)

Pollet, Marc, Andrade, Rui, Gonçalves, Ana, Andrade, Pedro, Jacinto, Valter, Almeida, Jorge, Braekeleer, Anja De, Calster, Hans Van & Brosens, Dimitri, 2019, Dipterological surveys in Portugal unveil 200 species of long-legged flies, with over 170 new to the country (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), Zootaxa 4649 (1), pp. 1-69 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4649.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10448884
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scientific name	Hercostomus plagiatus (Loew, 1857) (Dolichopodinae)
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67. Hercostomus plagiatus (Loew, 1857) (Dolichopodinae) View in CoL — new to Portugal

Number of specimens recorded. 9.

Distribution. Europe; also North Africa. Portugal: two northern provinces.

Ecology. Recorded in Portugal from parks, river banks and a bog situated in a humid Mediterranean shrubland. In northwestern Europe, this species displays a bimodal habitat preference for both reedmarshes and wooded swamps on limestone soil ( Pollet 1993).

Rarity (%). 3.4 (rare). Common (FL).

Activity period. July.