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
journal article
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obesa
(Fabricius)
Syrphus obesa
Fabricius, 1775: 763
.
Ornidia obesa
:
Peck 1996: 122
[mode of introduction];
Peck
et al
. 1998: 228
[introduced species];
Causton
et al
. 2006: 134
[introduced species];
Sinclair
et al
. 2016: 84
[review];
Marín-Armijos
et al
. 2017: 173
[checklist].
Distribution.
Introduced. Cosmopolitan; Galápagos: Isabela,
San Cristóbal
, Santa Cruz (ICCDRS).
Remarks.
This species has spread extensively throughout the warmer regions with commerce and is known to breed in human and other semiliquid wastes (
Thompson 1991
). This species was recently introduced to the
Galápagos
and adults have been recorded on flowers of
Varronia leucophlyctis
(Hook.f.) Andersson
and
Waltheria ovata
Cav. (
Hervías-Parejo & Traveset 2018
)
.