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Sarcophaga rufiventris
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Description
rufiventris (Wiedemann) (T. Tantawi pers. comm.).
Sarcophaga rufiventris Wiedemann, 1830: 362.
Distribution. Introduced. Australasian/ Oceanian, Nearctic, Neotropical; Galápagos: Baltra, Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz.
Material examined. Galápagos Islands: Santa Cruz: CDRS, beach zone, 19.vi.2016, marine iguana dung, B.J. Sinclair (2 ♁, CNC).
Remarks. This is a common city species in Brazil and it has been reared from damaged turtle eggs and hatchlings in Costa Rica (Carvalho-Filho & Esposito 2012). Galápagos specimens have been collected on beaches, sometimes associated with marine iguana dung (Fig. 7).
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 75-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CDRS , CNC
- Event date
- 2016-06-19
- Verbatim event date
- 2016-06-19
- Scientific name authorship
- Wiedemann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Sarcophagidae
- Genus
- Sarcophaga
- Species
- rufiventris
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1830) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten. Zweiter Theil. s. n., Hamm, xii + 684 pp.
- Carvalho-Filho, F. S. & Esposito, M. C. (2012) Revision of Argoravinia Townsend (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Brazil with the description of two new species. Zootaxa, 3256 (1), 1 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3256.1.1