Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Dasyhelea spathicercus
mosquito
This is an intertidal species (Wirth 1969b)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Nematocera
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Dasyhelea
Species
spathicercus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- 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.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Dasyhelea spathicercus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12229. Accessed 2 November 2026.