Medetera micacea Loew, 1857 (Medeterinae)

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 : 43

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4649.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10448914

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scientific name

Medetera micacea Loew, 1857 (Medeterinae)
status

 

83. Medetera micacea Loew, 1857 (Medeterinae) View in CoL — new to Portugal

Number of specimens recorded. 9.

Distribution. Europe. Portugal: two northern provinces.

Ecology. Recorded from different biotopes in Portugal, in fair numbers only in meadows in a Quercus pyrenaica forest. In northwestern Europe, this species is recorded from moss dunes, dry dune grassland and dry shortgrazed heathlands on sandy soil, both along the coast and inland ( Pollet & Grootaert 1995, 1996).

Rarity (%). 3.4 (rare). Fairly common (FL).

Activity period. June, November.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Dolichopodidae

Genus

Medetera

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