Saltella nigripes Robineau-Desvoidy, 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 : 242-243

Saltella nigripes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Material: Switzerland: AG:Habsburg, 450 m, 25.iii.2004 (leg. Wermelinger); Untersiggenthal/Schlatt, 450 m, 15.viii.1991; Würenlingen, 420 m, 19.viii.2003; Würenlingen/Firsthalde, 420 m, 14.vii.1991. BE:Rümligen, 540 m, 2000, 2004, 2005 (all leg. Duelli). BL:Bubendorf, 13.–20.vii.2000, 31.viii.–7.ix.2000 (all leg. Wolf). FR:Courlevon, 600 m, 2000, 2004 (all leg. Duelli); Nuvilly, 650 m, 2005 (leg. Duelli). GE:Bernex/Chante–Merle, 420 m, 7.viii.2000 (leg. Merz &Bächli); Bernex/Tuilières, 420 m, 12.viii.2000; Cartigny/Moulin de Vert, 350 m, 9.viii.2000 (leg. Merz &Bächli); Russin/Biolay, 360 m, 9.viii.2000 (leg. Merz &Bächli). GL: Schwändital, 1250 m, 2000 (leg. Duelli). GR:Rothenbrunnen, 630 m, 8.viii.1996. JU:La Chaux-des-Breuleux, 1000 m, 28.vi.2003. LU:Dierikon, 550 m, 2003 (leg. Duelli); Ruswil, 800 m, 2005 (leg. Duelli); Sursee, 500 m, 13.vi.2004. SH:Merishausen, 540 m, 9.viii.1999. SO:Messen, 500 m, 25.iii.2004 (leg. Wermelinger). TG:Lommis/Immenberg 700 m, 4.viii.2007; Roggwil, 420 m, 2000, 2003 (all. leg. Duelli). TI:Bolle di Magadino, 200 m, 2000 (leg. Duelli); Sessa, 31.viii.–2.ix.1991 (leg. Wilhelm); VD:Senarclens, 600 m, 2000 (leg. Duelli). VS:Jeizinen, 1500 m, 10.viii.2013; Visp, 650 m, 2000 (leg. Duelli). ZG:Steinhausen, 500 m, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006 (all leg. Duelli). ZH:Rafz, 420 m, 2001 (leg. Duelli); Uitikon, 540 m, 2000, 2001 (all leg. Duelli)

Liechtenstein:Ruggell, 430 m, 8.viii.1988.

Distribution:Palaearctic ( Ozerov 2005).

Comments:Apparently the first record for Liechtenstein. This species is relatively large and can be collected on cow dung. Males are larger than females when raised under common laboratory conditions ( Rohner et al. 2016) but both sexes vary strongly in size when collected in the field. It is rarely recorded during spring and early summer but can occur in great numbers late in the season (pers. obs. P. T. Rohner).