Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Brachycara digitata
mosca, fly
Specimens were reared from larvae collected from leaf litter beneath Sesuvium in association with N. albiventris.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Brachycara
Species
digitata
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- James, M.T. (1966) The Stratiomyidae (Diptera) of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 33(17): 535-542.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Brachycara digitata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12231. Accessed 4 June 2026.