Species Account for Meroplius fukuharai
Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984)
Diptera: other groups: Sepsidae
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Taxonomic group: flies (other) (Diptera: other groups) - County data
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Recorded from 3 out of 57x10km.sq. records in county
Species text
Meroplius fukuharai was added to the British list by Chandler (2002). It is very rare with specimens known only from Dorset and a sewage farm in Middlesex. It is accorded RDBK status in MapMate, the biological recording software. In 2004 it was collected new to Essex at a site in Purfleet, now destroyed. References
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