Medetera micacea Loew, 1857

Kejval, Zbyněk & Pollet, Marc, 2023, The genus Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the Czech Republic with first records of twelve species, Zootaxa 5254 (1), pp. 69-93 : 84

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.1.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A7B92D56-B267-4EBE-9896-187B043274F7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7710947
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B9420F46-3841-FFB2-88E7-480CFE28103A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Medetera micacea Loew, 1857
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Medetera micacea Loew, 1857 View in CoL View at ENA

Material examined. Bohemia: Štítary (6442), 49°33′53″N 12°49′15″E, 410–430 m, dry hillside above river, 17.vi.2021, 2 ♁♁ ( MCH) GoogleMaps . Pocinovice (6544), 49°20′16″N 13°7′14″E, wide stony path on dry hillside, 470–500 m, 7.viii.2021, 5 ♁♁ 7 ♀♀ ( MCH) GoogleMaps .

Moravia: Havraníky (7162), 26.vii.1995, no collector, 1 ♁ ( NMPC). Hodonín (7168), Pánov NM, 48°53′09″N 17°08′18″E, 200 m, sandy steppe, 9.vii.2022, 1 ♁ ( MCH) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Widespread in Europe.

Status in CZ. Previously recorded from both Bohemia and Moravia: Aš ( Kowarz 1884), Františkovy Lázně ( Vimmer 1913), Lanžhot-Ranšpurk ( Rozkošný & Vaňhara 1995; Olejníček 1998), and Mohelno ( Rozkošný & Vaňhara 1997). There are no specimens in the historical collection of NMPC. The occurrence in Bohemia is confirmed herein after more than 100 years.

Ecology. Medetera micacea is a typical representative of European dolichopodid communities that occur in open, bare to sparsely vegetated habitat types on sandy soils, like coastal dunes and heathlands ( Pollet & Grootaert 1996; Pollet et al. 2011).