Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Dasyhelea sinclairi
mosquito
Specimens were collected only from habitats immediately adjacent to the coast (Borkent 1991).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Nematocera
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Dasyhelea
Species
sinclairi
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz.
- Borkent, A. (1991) The Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador with a Discussion of their Phylogenetic Relationships and Zoogeographic Origins. Entomologica Scandinavica 22(1): 97-120.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Dasyhelea sinclairi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12228. Accessed 2 November 2026.