Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Thalassomya pilipes
mosquito
Found in intertidal zone and breeds in algae on wave drenched rocks on the sea coast (Wirth 1969b).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Nematocera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Thalassomya
Species
pilipes
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
- Gerecke, R. Peck, S.B. & Pehofer, H.E. (1995) The invertebrate fauna of the inland waters of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador) - a limnological and zoogeographical summary. Arch. Hydrobiol./ Suppl. 107(2): 113-147.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
- Wirth, W.W. (1969) New species and records of Galápagos Diptera. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Fourth Series 36(20): 571-594.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Thalassomya pilipes", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12220. Accessed 5 June 2026.