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Sarcophagula occidua

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occidua (Fabricius)

Musca occidua Fabricius, 1794: 315.

Sarcophagula occidua: Johnson 1924: 88 [records]; Linsley & Usinger 1966: 172 [checklist]; Lopes 1978: 605 [records].

Tricharaea (Sarcophagula) occidua: Pape 1996: 434 [catalogue].

Distribution. Introduced. Australasian/ Oceanian, Nearctic, Neotropical; Galápagos: Baltra, Floreana, Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago.

Remarks. Adults of this species were swept from dung, including tortoise dung, and range from littoral to highland humid zones (ICCDRS).

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 page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Sarcophagula
Species
occidua
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sarcophagula occidua (Fabricius, 1794) sec. Sinclair, 2023

References

  • Fabricius, J. C. (1794) Entomologica systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4. s. n., Hafniae [Copenhagen], 472 pp.
  • Johnson, C. W. (1924) Diptera of the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica, 5 (8), 85 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 190334
  • Linsley, E. G. & Usinger, R. L. (1966) Insects of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 33 (7), 113 - 196.
  • Lopes, H. S. (1978) Sarcophagidae (Diptera) of Galapagos Islands. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 38, 595 - 611.
  • Pape, T. (1996) Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International, 8, 1 - 558.