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Icosta albipennis
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albipennis (Say)
Olfersia albipennis Say, 1823: 101.
Lynchia albipennis: Bequaert 1933: 134 [records]; Bequaert 1955: 337 [records]; Linsley & Usinger 1966: 173 [checklist]; Guimar„es 1968: 5 [catalogue].
Ornithoponus intertropicus of authors (misidentification): Johnson 1924: 91 [records]; Curran 1932: 366 [record].
Distribution. Native. Cosmopolitan; Galápagos: Fernandina, Genovesa, Santa Cruz, Santiago, Seymour.
Remarks. This species is primarily a parasite of wading birds (Ciconiiformes), especially herons (Bequaert 1933).
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 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Say
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Hippoboscidae
- Genus
- Icosta
- Species
- albipennis
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Say, T. (1823) Descriptions of dipterous insects of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 3, 9 - 54, 73 - 104.
- Bequaert, J. C. (1933) The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932. No. 11. The Hippoboscidae of the Galapagos Archipelago (Notes on the Hippoboscidae. 8.) with an appendix on the Tabanidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 21 (11), 131 - 138.
- Bequaert, J. C. (1955) The Hippoboscidae or louse - flies (Diptera) of mammals and birds. Part II. Taxonomy, evolution and revision of American genera and species. Entomologica Americana, 35, 233 - 416.
- 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.
- Johnson, C. W. (1924) Diptera of the Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica, 5 (8), 85 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 190334
- Curran, C. H. (1932) [The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, conducted by Alf Wollebaek. IV.] Diptera (excl. of Tipulidae and Culicidae). Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, 71, 347 - 366.