Galapagos Species Database
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Bradysia ocellaris
mosquito
Common in greenhouses.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Nematocera
Family
Sciaridae
Genus
Bradysia
Species
ocellaris
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 1992
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Holarctic, Africa; Floreana, Santa Cruz.
- Causton, C.E. Sevilla, C. (2008) Latest Records of Introduced Invertebrates in Galapagos and Measures to control them. Galapagos Report 2006-2007, CDF, GNP and INGALA, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador, p. 142-145.
- Mohrig, W., Kauschke, E., Broadley, A. (2019) Revision of black fungus gnat species (Diptera, Sciaridae) described from the Hawaiian Islands by D.E. Hardy and W.A. Steffan, and a contribution to the knowledge of the sciarid fauna of the Galápagos Islands. Zootaxa 4590 (4): 401–439
- Sinclair, B.J. Peck, S.B. (2005) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bradysia ocellaris", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12193. Accessed 1 November 2026.