Meroplius minutus

Meroplius minutus (Wiedemann, 1830) Sepsis minuta Wiedemann, 1830: 468. Type-locality: USA, New York. Sepsis lutaria Fallén, 1820: 22. Unavailable name, Fallén published this name in synonymy with cylindrica Fabricius (now Nemopoda nitidula Fallén) [see notes by Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 135]. Nemopoda stercoraria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 745. Type-locality: not given, probably France, Saint-Sauveur. Meroplius nigrilatera Macquart, 1835: 481. Type-locality: France. Sepsis rufipes Meigen, 1838: 349. Type-locality: Germany, Stolberg. Nemopoda coeruleifrons Macquart, 1847: 110. Type-locality: USA, Philadelphia. Nemopoda varipes Walker, 1871: 345. Preoccupied by Nemopoda varipes Meigen, 1838. Type-locality: Egypt, Cairo. Nemopoda polita Duda, 1926: 96, 98. Unavailable name; citation of a Meigen MS name, in synonymy with Meroplius stercorarius (Robineau-Desvoidy). Nemopoda caeruleiformis (sic, Nemopoda coeruleifrons Macquart, 1847): Aldrich, 1905: 620. Nemopoda coerulifrons (sic, Nemopoda coeruleifrons Macquart, 1847): Melander & Spuler, 1917: 84. Distribution. PA: Asia- China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Georgia, Russia; Europe- Austria, Belgium, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia; North Africa: Egypt; NE: Canada, USA; OR: Nepal, Taiwan.