Coproica pusio (Zetterstedt, 1847)

Bouzrarf, Khadija, Qalmoun, Abderrahmane, Beuk, Paul L. Th., Akhrif, Rachida & Belqat, Boutaïna, 2025, Contribution to the knowledge of Sphaeroceridae (Insecta: Diptera) associated with animal breeding farms in Morocco, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3), pp. 751-782 : 760

Coproica pusio (Zetterstedt, 1847)

Material examined. Cattle farm: RIF. 1♂, 2♀♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 . Goat farm: RIF. 1♂, 1♀, Bab Taza Village (35°02'43.2"N 5°13'47.8"W), 28.IV.2019 .

Distribution in Morocco. RIF. Oued Laou, Smir lagoon ( Gatt et al., 2016).

General distribution. Oriental – Pakistan; Palaearctic – Afghanistan, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Mongolia, Russia (NET, ES, SET), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia ( Serbia) ( Roháček et al., 2001). Morocco ( Kettani et al., 2022).

Biology. It was captured with cattle and goat farms in this study. According to Floren (1989), it is chiefly on cattle droppings, cow houses, dunghill, pastures, potato and rape fields, and grass compost.