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Lucilia eximia
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eximia (Wiedemann)
Musca eximia Wiedemann, 1819: 53.
Lucilia eximia: Tantawi & Sinclair 2013: 239 [remarks, records]; Whitworth 2014: 30 [remarks]; Moreno et al. 2020: 120 [checklist].
Distribution. Introduced. Neotropical; Galápagos: Floreana, Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz.
Remarks. This is the most common and widespread species of the genus in the Neotropical Region, and is known to breed in carrion (Tantawi & Sinclair 2013).
Notes
Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 5283 (1) on pages 74-75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wiedemann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Calliphoridae
- Genus
- Lucilia
- Species
- eximia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lucilia eximia (Wiedemann, 1819) sec. Sinclair, 2023
References
- Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1819) Brasilianische Zweifl ¸ gler. Zoologisches Magazin (Wiedemann's), 1 (3), 40 - 56.
- Tantawi, T. I. & Sinclair, B. J. (2013) An update of the blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the Galapagos Islands, and first record of Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) from mainland Ecuador. Zootaxa, 3750 (3), 237 - 250. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3750.3.4
- Whitworth, T. (2014) A revision of the Neotropical species of Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Zootaxa, 3810 (1), 1 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3810.1.1
- Moreno, E. A., Amat, E., Meneses, P. E., Donoso, D. A. & Barragan, A. R. (2020) Green bottle flies (Calliphoridae, Luciliinae) of Ecuador: geographic distribution, checklist and DNA barcodes. Neotropical Biodiversity, 6 (1), 117 - 126. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 23766808.2020.1804747