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
5283
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1
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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
).