Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Nemotelus albiventris
mosca, fly
Breed in leaf litter lying below salt-tolerant coastal herbaceous plants
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Nemotelus
Species
albiventris
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Darwin, Española, Genovesa, Isabela, Rábida (CDRS), Santa Cruz.
- Coquillett, D.W. (1901) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. II. Entomological Results (2): Diptera. Proc. Washington Acad. Sc. 3: 371-379.
- Curran, C.H. (1932) The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, Conducted by Alf Wollebæk. 4. Diptera. (Excl. of Tipulidae and Culicidae). Medd. Zool. Mus., Oslo 30: 347-366.
- 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.
- Linsley, E.G. Usinger, R.L. (1966) Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series 33(7): 113-196.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Nemotelus albiventris", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12232. Accessed 31 October 2026.