Galapagos Species Database
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Insulestremia sinclairi
mosquito, gall midges
Collected in dry zones and dry Scalesia forest.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Nematocera
Family
Cecidomyiidae
Genus
Insulestremia
Species
sinclairi
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Insulestremia sinclairi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12201. Accessed 2 November 2026.