New additions to the fauna of the superfamily Tephritoidea (Diptera) of Morocco
Author
Harym, Younes El
0000-0002-6852-6602
LESCB URL-CNRST N ° 18, FS, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
elharym.younes@gmail.com
Author
Korneyev, Valery
0000-0001-9631-1038
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmelnytsky St. 15, 01054 Kyiv, Ukraine and Museum f ¸ r Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
valery.korneyev@gmail.com
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-10-30
5360
4
487
514
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5360.4.2/52130
journal article
276124
10.11646/zootaxa.5360.4.2
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1175-5326
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Family
Piophilidae
Currently, there are five genera and six species recorded from North Africa (
Saifi
et al
. 2016
;
El-Hawagry 2017
;
Taleb
et al
. 2019
); three of them occur in
Morocco
(
Kettani
et al
. 2022
). All species belong to the subfamily
Piophilinae
, which is represented by the tribes Mycetaulini and Piophilini. The Mycetaulini have larvae associated with fungi and are represented by the species
Mycetaulus hispanicus
Duda, 1927
, while the Piophilini are represented by four species, two of the genus
Piophila
Fallén
, including
Piophila casei
(Linnaeus, 1758)
, a cosmopolitan associated with corpses, usually in the final stages of decomposition in the wild or as a common pest of proteinaceous animal products (also known as “cheese skipper”) (
Muller 2021
). The species
Piophila megastigmata
McAlpine 1978
has been recorded from
Spain
and
Algeria
and is associated with impala carcasses (
Martín-Vega
et al
. 2011
;
Saifi
et al
. 2016
).
Prochyliza nigrimana
(Meigen, 1826) is a non-Afrotropical sarcosaprophagous species that also develops on carrion or in food (
Muller 2021
).