Dolichopus strigipes Verrall, 1875 (Dolichopodinae)

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 : 36

54. Dolichopus strigipes Verrall, 1875 (Dolichopodinae)

Number of specimens recorded. 2.

Distribution. Western, southern and southeastern Europe. Portugal: one province (Estremadura) in this study, and Algarve (Dyte unpubl. data).

Ecology. The only Portuguese sampling site with this species was a coastal lagoon with saltmarshes surrounded mostly by pine forest and plantations of Eucalyptus sp. In northwestern Europe, this species is also confined to salt marshes and brackish marshes ( Pollet 2000).

Rarity (%). 1.1 (very rare). Rare (FL).

Activity period. September.