Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Scenopinus galapagosensis
mosca, fly
Belongs to a species group common to North and South America and some Pacific Islands (Kelsey 1970).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Scenopinidae
Genus
Scenopinus
Species
galapagosensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Bartolomé, Floreana, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago.
- Kelsey, L.P. (1970) A new Scenopinus from the 1964 Galapagos International Scientific Project (Diptera: Scenopinidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 46(2): 96-97.
- 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.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, Scenopinus galapagosensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12249. Accessed 2 November 2026.