An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador)
Author
Sinclair, Bradley J.
0000-0001-6413-1606
bradley.sinclair@inspection.gc.ca
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-09
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1
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fasciata
(Thomson)
Chrysochlora fasciata
Thomson, 1869: 460
.
Pelagomyia fasciata
:
James 1966b: 540
[review];
James 1967: 4
[remarks];
Linsley 1977: 38
[checklist].
Chrysochlorina fasciata
:
Iide 1971: 503
[redescription];
James 1973: 35
[catalogue];
Woodley 2001: 175
[catalogue];
Sinclair 2009: 110
[biology].
Pelagomyia dubia
Curran, 1932: 348
.
Curran 1934: 150
[records];
Linsley & Usinger 1966: 166
[checklist];
James 1966b: 535
[review].
Pelagomyia albitalus
of authors (misidentification): Coquillett 1901: 373 [record].
Distribution.
Endemic. Galápagos: Baltra, Española, Floreana, Isabela, Rábida,
San Cristóbal
, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago, Seymour.
Remarks.
Adults (
Fig. 14
) were reared by the author from larvae and puparia collected in rotting
Jasminocereus
(
Fig. 6
) and
Opuntia
cacti.
Bowman (1961)
found larvae of stratiomyids (reported as
Hermetia illucens
) in the digestive tracts of the woodpecker finch,
Camarhynchus pallidus
. This record is likely
Chrysochlorina fasciata
as
H. illucens
was not recorded from the
Galápagos Islands
until the late 1990s (see below). Specimens have been observed feeding on dead stems of
Opuntia
(
Boada 2005
)
.