An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador)
Author
Sinclair, Bradley J.
0000-0001-6413-1606
bradley.sinclair@inspection.gc.ca
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-09
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1
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galapagoensis
Bequaert
Microlynchia galapagoensis
Bequaert, 1955: 384
.
Maa 1963: 35
, 122 [remarks];
Linsley & Usinger 1966: 173
[checklist]; Guimar„es 1968: 6 [catalogue];
Maa 1969: 283
[checklist].
Microlynchia pusilla
of authors (misidentification):
Bequaert 1933: 135
[records];
Linsley & Usinger 1966:
173 [checklist].
Distribution.
Endemic.
Galápagos
: Española, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé,
Santiago
, Wolf.
Remarks.
This species is believed to transmit the blood parasite
Haemoproteus
(
Harmon
et al
. 1984
–85). In the
Gálapagos
, adults of this species were collected from
Zenaida galapagoensis
Gould
,
Buteo galapagoensis
(
Bequaert 1955
)
,
Mimus macdonaldi
Ridgeway
(Española; MONZ), and
Mimus parvulus
(Gould)
(
Santiago
;
Harmon
et al
. 1984
–85).