Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984)
Author
Patrick T. Rohner
Author
Gerhard Bächli
text
Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft
2016
89
237
260
journal article
37348
10.5281/zenodo.192634
686640dd-99b6-4839-94f7-1cc035ba7a39
192634
Themira
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
This is arelatively large genus including species of striking disparity. Foreleg modifications are particularly strong and more pronounced than in
Sepsis
,
Saltella
,
Meroplius
and
Nemopoda
.Many species of
Themira
are known to breed in waterfowl dung and are thus common near lakes or rivers with large bird populations or other damp places. There are comparably few records for this genus for Switzerland (with the exception of
T. annulipes
,which is common on cow pastures), and there are likely more species present that have not been recorded yet (
Haenni 1997
;
Rohner 2015
).