Galapagos Species Database
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Anarete buscki
mosquito, gall midges
Prefer open habitats rather then forests. Adults form mating swarms. Encountered along trails in littoral and dry zones.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Nematocera
Family
Cecidomyiidae
Genus
Anarete
Species
buscki
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: New World; San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz.
- Jaschhof, M. (2004) Wood midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Lestremiinae) from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Faun. Abh. 25: 99-106.
- Sinclair, B. J. (2023) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Zootaxa, 5283, 1-102
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Anarete buscki", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12198. Accessed 3 November 2026.