Dipterological surveys in Portugal unveil 200 species of long-legged flies, with over 170 new to the country (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
Author
Pollet, Marc
Author
Andrade, Rui
Author
Gonçalves, Ana
Author
Andrade, Pedro
Author
Jacinto, Valter
Author
Almeida, Jorge
Author
Braekeleer, Anja De
Author
Calster, Hans Van
Author
Brosens, Dimitri
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-01
4649
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4649.1.1
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93.
Orthoceratium sabulosum
(Becker, 1907)
(Hydrophorinae)
(
Figs 5B
,
8A
)
Number of specimens recorded.
6.
Distribution.
See
Pollet & Stark (2018)
.
Portugal
: three northern provinces (see also
Naglis & Barták (2015)
, and Algarve (Dyte unpubl. data).
Ecology.
Recorded from lush grassy vegetation on a riverbank, from a pine forest and from a sandy spit at the mouth of the Douro River. In northwestern Europe, the species is confined to salt marshes and brackish marshes, but it also occurs along forest streams at higher altitudes in the western, southern and eastern Mediterranean (see
Pollet
et al.
2017
;
Pollet & Stark 2018
).
Rarity (%).
3.4 (rare). Extremely rare (FL).
Activity period.
May, July, October.
Remarks.
This species was listed as
Orthoceratium lacustre
(Scopoli, 1763)
by
Naglis & Barták (2015)
and Dyte (unpubl. data).